Eastham is a small town, located in the Wirral area of Merseyside, England. It is located close to the M53 motorway, and lies directly on the A41 road, the main road between Birkenhead and Birmingham. It is also close to the city of Chester. It shares a proximity to the village of Port Sunlight, which is considered by many to be the birthplace of the British soap industry. Wirral is a peninsula and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England, more commonly known locally as The Wirral, which is short for The Wirral Peninsula. ... Merseyside is a metropolitan county, created in the 1974 local government reform. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... The M53 motorway is a major road in England, running from Wallasey on the opposite bank of the River Mersey to Liverpool, along the Wirral peninsula past Birkenhead and Ellesmere Port to just east of Chester, upon which motorway regulations end and it seamlessly becomes the A55 road, which continues... The A41 is a major trunk road in United Kingdom that links London to Birkenhead. ... Location within the British Isles. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in the north-west of England, close to the border with Wales. ... Port Sunlight is a village on the Wirral (in the North West of England). ... This article is about a common cleaning mixture. ...

The original village (inhabited since Saxon times) is clustered around St. Mary's church, whose churchyard contains an ancient yew. Much of the surrounding land was once owned by the powerful Stanley family. In the Victorian era a ferry brought visitors from Liverpool to the pleasure gardens, remnants of which can be seen in Eastham Country Park. Eastham Lock forms the western end of the Manchester Ship Canal. In the 1930s, significant housing development joined Eastham to neighbouring Bromborough leaving the Mersey side of the Wirral continuously built up to New Brighton. Species Taxus baccata - European Yew Taxus brevifolia - Pacific Yew Taxus canadensis - Canadian Yew Taxus chinensis - Chinese Yew Taxus cuspidata - Japanese Yew Taxus floridana - Florida Yew Taxus globosa - Mexican Yew Taxus sumatrana - Sumatran Yew Taxus wallichiana - Himalayan Yew Yews are small coniferous trees or shrubs in the genus Taxus in the... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ... The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on short-distance, scheduled services. ... Liverpools skyline, as seen from the River Mersey. ... The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford The Manchester Ship Canal (MSC), affectionately known by locals as The Big Ditch, was opened on 21 May 1894, and is a large canal in north-west England. ... Bromborough is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England It is one of several disputed candidates from the site of Battle of Brunanburh. ... The River Mersey is a river in the north west of England. ... <-!LAST PICTURE WAS TOO BIG, SHOULD BE SMALLER --> New Brighton is a seaside village situated on the Wirral peninsular in North West England, UK. New Brighton once possesed a tower (built 1898) which was 621ft high, taller the Blackpool Tower. ...

Eastham is so-called because it was originally a hamlet East of the larger settlement of Bromborough.

External links

• Historic photos
• 6th Bebington Sea Scout Group