Bickerstaffe is a village and civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,196. The village is near junction 3 of the M58 motorway, and is about four miles west of Skelmersdale. A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... West Lancashire is a local government district in Lancashire, England. ... Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The M58 motorway is a motorway in England. ... Skelmersdale is a town within West Lancashire, in North West England. ...
The village is home to the yellow and blue of the mighty Bickerstaffe AFC. The hallowed turf of Hall Lane its home!
In the Seventeenth century, Bickerstaffe was an important local centre of the Quakers in West Lancashire
Coordinates: 53°31′N, 2°50′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
Bickerstaffe became an organiser for the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) in 1966 in Yorkshire, rising through the ranks to be divisional officer of the northern division.
Bickerstaffe was a popular and highly-visible trade union leader, calling for better rights and fairer treatment for staff working in public services and those transferred to the private sector through national and local privatisations.
Bickerstaffe has honorary doctorates from Keele University, the University of Hertfordshire and Sheffield Hallam University as well as the Freedom of the Borough from Doncaster metropolitan borough.
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