Gardens · North West England
Otterspool Tower
In or near Liverpool.
Otterspool Tower — a garden in wales-north, United Kingdom.
Norman Caesar — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Nearest railway station
- St Michaels · 0.4 km
- Paid entry
- Dog-friendly
Getting there & planning your visit
To visit Otterspool Tower, the nearest railway station is St Michaels, located 0.4 km away. Entry is paid, and the postcode for sat-nav is L17 7HW.
About
Otterspool Tower is a garden of interest in wales-north, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
Photo gallery
From the Wikipedia article
Otterspool Tower is a name commonly given to a supertall skyscraper that was proposed in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Developers, Wiggins Group, first touted the idea in 1995 before moving forward with the proposal in 1998. Also dubbed the "Scousescraper", the building was set to be 305 m (1,000 ft) high and would have become the tallest building in Europe at the time. It was never built. Part of a £750 million regeneration vision of the former Festival Gardens site, the "grandiose" tower was planned to be predominantly leisure based, including such features as a 2,500 bed five-star hotel, a theme park and a giant waterfall. However, following negative reception, the plans were ultimately confirmed scrapped in late 1999; the developers subsequently claimed the proposal had only ever been made to "test the water", rather than being a truly serious concept.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Architecture
A few miles south of Liverpool city centre, the site is reclaimed land from the River Mersey. Reclamation began in 1957, using domestic and industrial waste as infill; this was an extension northwards of the previously reclaimed Otterspool Promenade. Due to industrial decline in Liverpool, petroleum and oil related industries subsequently established on the new land were eventually abandoned, meanwhile refuse continued to be dumped at the site until 1981. Eventually, part of the site was repurposed as an amusement park under the name "Pleasure Island" in 1992.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.3737, -2.9582
- District
- Liverpool
- Parish
- Liverpool, unparished area
- Postcode
- L17 7HW
- Parliamentary constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree
- Nearest railway station
- St Michaels — 0.4 km
- Official site
- www.wikiwand.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q104851484 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Otterspool Tower (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Otterspool Tower?
- Otterspool Tower is in North Wales, United Kingdom (postcode L17 7HW), in the parish of Liverpool, unparished area.
- What is Otterspool Tower?
- Otterspool Tower — a garden in wales-north, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Otterspool Tower?
- The nearest railway station is St Michaels, about 0.4 km away. Drivers can use postcode L17 7HW.
- How do I get to Otterspool Tower?
- The nearest railway station is St Michaels, about 0.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode L17 7HW.