A guide for families in Thornton who have started to wonder whether someone they love could benefit from a little extra help at home. Written honestly, without pressure, from experience.
Thornton does not announce itself. Tucked between Crosby and the open farmland that runs towards Little Crosby and Ince Blundell, it is the kind of place people drive through without realising they have passed somewhere with seven centuries of history behind it. Residents know better. The old village stocks still stand near the church. The lanes towards Little Crosby pass some of the oldest estate cottages in the region.
Select Home Care Services provides home help and companionship in Thornton — meals, shopping, housekeeping, appointments and company — at a standard rate of £33 per hour.
What Thornton offers the people who live here is precisely what it does not shout about: quiet residential streets, gardens, a genuine village feel within a few minutes of everything Crosby and the coast provide. Families settle here and stay for decades. Many of the older adults we support in this area have lived in the same house for forty or fifty years.
Our free guides answer the questions most families ask first.
Thornton sits in a particular position: a village on the edge of the countryside, yet minutes from Crosby, the coast and everything the wider area offers. That combination — rural quiet with urban convenience — is exactly why people who move here so rarely leave.
Long-term residents have their own relationship with this place that goes deeper than convenience. The lanes their feet know without thinking. The neighbours who have been part of the same road for decades. The garden that has been tended through forty seasons. These are the things that make Thornton feel like home in a specific, irreplaceable way.
Thornton is a small village between Crosby and Formby, so most shopping and appointments mean a trip out — to Crosby, the GP or Aintree University Hospital. A helper who can accompany someone, or do the shopping for them, often makes the biggest difference here. If your helper drives you, mileage is charged as shown on our Pricing page.
For older adults in Thornton, the desire to remain here — in the home they know, with the garden they have kept, within the village they have been part of for years — is almost universal. What gradually threatens that is not any single thing, but the accumulation of small practical difficulties that, left unaddressed, shift the balance.
We cover the whole of Thornton within L23. If you are unsure whether your road falls within our area, please call us and we will confirm immediately.
Select Home Care Services was founded by senior carer Anita and registered nurses Natalie and Nicola. We provide home help and companionship. We are not CQC registered, and we do not provide personal care, nursing or medical treatment, or give medication — if that kind of help is needed, we will say so and point you to the right service.
£33 per hour. Every service. Holiday rates published.
No registration fees · Published prices · Minimum visit one hour · No long-term contract
If you have a question not answered here, please call us on 01704 333 188. We are always happy to talk without any pressure.
See All QuestionsThe first call is simply a conversation, with no commitment. We will listen carefully and give you an honest view of whether home help is what is needed. If you decide to go ahead, we arrange a visit to talk through what would help, and agree everything in a simple written agreement.
Some families call us having thought about it for a day. Others have been sitting with the question for months. Either is fine. The conversation will be the same: unhurried, honest and without any pressure.
If we are not the right fit, we will say so — and do what we can to point you in the right direction.