Centre, adjoining Ridgewood Park on Fishers Lane, and the Kylemore Drive Community Centre. There is also an adult day centre on Somerset Road. Pensby Library is on Pensby Road. The 3rd Heswall Scout group is also based in Pensby. Public Houses The Pensby Hotel was the single pub in the village, but after a £500,000 cannabis bust by police, was boarded up and left empty after October 2013. There was a campaign for the building to be listed as a community asset, meaning that the community would have been given six months to prepare a bid for it, which may or may not have been accepted by the owner, but community asset status was rejected by Wirral Council in September 2015. Planning permission was subsequently granted for the demolition of the building and construction of the new care home, and demolition began in October 2016. Parks and Commons Pensby Wood and Ridgewood Park are adjacent to Fishers Lane. Arrowe Park is approximately north of Pensby. Sport The famous Everton FC footballer Dixie Dean played for Pensby Institute in his early days, on the fields at the side of Gills Lane. He was sold to Tranmere Rovers for the fee of a new kit for the team. Pensby recreation centre and bowling club is on Pensby Road. Transport Road Pensby is on the B5138 Pensby Road, which connects to the A540 and the A551. Junction 3 of the M53 motorway is within two miles of the village. Bus Services operating in the Pensby area, as of January 2020: Rail Heswall railway station on the Borderlands line is located approximately south-east of Pensby and provides services between Wrexham and Bidston. Landmarks Pensby Hall is a two storeyed red sandstone dwelling with a slate roof. The windows are a mix of casements and sashes, some of which are mullioned. Built in 1688, with some structural additions to the property in the 19th century, it was designated a Grade II listed building in 1962. See also Listed buildings in Heswall References Bibliography External links Irby Thurstaston & Pensby Amenity Society Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral