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Encyclopedia > Clock Face, Merseyside

Clock Face is an area of St. Helens, Merseyside, England, approximately two miles from the town centre. It is also a ward of St Helens council. It is so named because of the large clock face that once graced the area. The Clock Face public house now maintains the area's name. St Helens is a town in Merseyside in North West England, and traditionally part of Lancashire. ... Merseyside is a metropolitan county, located in the North West of England. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods... St Helens is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...


Clock Face was once served by the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway at Clock Face Station on Gartons Lane. The area is currently served by Lea Green railway station on the northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line. St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway was an early railway company that acted as a feeder to the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway. ... Lea Green railway station is a railway station in St Helens, Merseyside, England, around three miles from the town centre near to the suburb of Clock Face. ... The Liverpool to Manchester Line is in fact two railway lines between the cities of Liverpool and Manchester in the north-west of England. ...


The area was an important coal mining village with three collieries in the vicinity. One of these, Sutton Manor Colliery was one of the last mines in St. Helens to close in the early 1980's. Wyoming coal mine Coal mining is the extraction of coal from the Earth for use during combustion. ...


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clock face: Information From Answers.com (448 words)
A clock face is the part of an analog clock that tells time through the use of a fixed numbered dial or dials and moving hand or hands.
The term face is also used for the time display on digital clocks and watches.
The face of the Movado "Museum Watch" is known for a single dot at the 12 o'clock position.
St Helens, Merseyside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (784 words)
St Helens is a town in Merseyside in North West England, and traditionally part of Lancashire.
Its clock tower originally had a steeple but this was destroyed in a fire in 1913.
The many coal mines including Clock Face, Sutton Manor and Lea Green were closed from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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