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Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
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Wirral is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England, which occupies the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, more commonly known as The Wirral. ...
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Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
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North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ...
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The CH postcode area, also known as the Chester postcode area[2], is a group of postal districts around Bagillt, Birkenhead, Buckley, Chester, Deeside, Ellesmere Port, Flint, Holywell, Mold, Neston, Prenton, Wallasey and Wirral in England and Wales. ...
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Merseyside Merseyside Police is the police force covering Merseyside in North West England. ...
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Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service Is the fire service covering the county of Merseyside in north-west England and is the statutory firfighting and rescue service responsible for all 999 fire brigade calls in Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens, Liverpool and Wirral. ...
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The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1 July 2006 as part of Health Minister Lord Warners plans to reduce the number of NHS ambulance service trusts operating in the United Kingdom to 12. ...
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Wirral West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Merseyside, England. ...
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Hoylake beach, looking towards Hilbre Island
Arms of the former Hoylake Urban District Council Hoylake is a seaside town in Merseyside, England, a few miles to the west of Liverpool. It is located on the western corner of the Wirral Peninsula, where the estuary of the River Dee meets the Irish Sea. As of the 2001 Census, the population of Hoylake, as part of the Hoylake & Meols Ward, was 13,042. ImageMetadata File history File links Hoylake_Beach. ...
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The Hilbre Group of islands in the estuary of the River Dee, and are part of the estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest. ...
Arms of Hoylake Urban District Council. ...
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Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ...
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ...
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Map showing the location of the Wirral at grid reference SJ285850 Wirral or The Wirral (IPA: [wɪɹəɫ]) is a peninsula in the north west of England, bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ...
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History In 1690, William III set sail from Hoylake with a 10,000-strong army to Ireland, where his army was to take part in the Battle of the Boyne. The location of departure remains known as Kings Gap.[2] Events Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiters atmosphere. ...
William III of England (The Hague, 14 November 1650 – Kensington Palace, 8 March 1702; also known as William II of Scotland and William III of Orange) was a Dutch aristocrat and a Protestant Prince of Orange from his birth, Stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic from 28...
Combatants Jacobite Forces -6000 French troops, 19,000 Irish Catholic troops Williamite Forces -English, Scottish, Dutch, Danish, Huguenot and Ulster Protestant troops Commanders James VII and II William III of England Strength 25,000 36,000 Casualties ~1,500 ~750 William III (William of Orange) King of England, Scotland and...
The name Hoylake was derived from Hoyle Lake, a channel of water between Hilbre Island and Dove Point. [3] The present day township grew up in the nineteenth century around the small fishing village of Hoose.[4] The Hilbre Group of islands in the estuary of the River Dee, and are part of the estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering. ...
The Royal Hotel was built by Sir John Stanley in 1792, with the intention of developing the area as a holiday resort. The numerous steam packet vessels sailing between Liverpool and North Wales which called at the hotel provided valuable patronage. By the mid-nineteenth century a racecourse was laid out in the grounds of the hotel. The hotel building was demolished in the 1950s. [5] 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
A passenger ship. ...
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The Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial is a notable local landmark, as it was designed in 1922 by the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger who was responsible for a number of war memorials around the world, including the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London. The Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial is a 115-meter-high, granite four-sided obelisk which stands on Grange Hill, West Kirby, Merseyside. ...
Detail from the Royal Artillery Memorial Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885-1934) was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war. ...
The Royal Artillery Memorial is a large stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London dedicated to casualties in the British Royal Regiment of Artillery in World War One. ...
Civic history The township of Hoose was part of the West Kirby Parish, Wirral Hundred. It became part of Hoylake cum West Kirby civil parish in 1894. [6] The population was 60 in 1801, 589 in 1851 and 2,701 in 1901. [6] The Hundred of Wirral is the ancient administrative area for The Wirral Peninsula. ...
A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ...
1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Hoylake had its own urban district council and mayor, until 1974 when it was absorbed into the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Wirral when local government reorganisation took place across the UK. At that point, Hoylake ceased to be in Cheshire, and became part of the nascent county of Merseyside. This did not please some Wirral residents who have since campaigned unsuccessfully for a return to Cheshire, although some have been mollified by the more recent change in postcode district from L47 to CH47. In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ...
A mayor (from the Latin mÄior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ...
Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...
Wirral is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England, which occupies the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, more commonly known as The Wirral. ...
The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ...
Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a county in North West England. ...
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Community Hoylake is a largely residential area and there is an active nightlife in the town centre, which is located at the original village of Hoose.[4]
The town supports a permanent lifeboat station and a sailing club. Severn class lifeboat in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England. ...
Due to the silting up of the Dee estuary, the traditional industry of fishing is no longer economically viable and has largely died out.[citation needed] For other meanings, see Estuary (disambiguation) Rio de la Plata estuary An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. ...
Transport
Railways Hoylake has two railway stations: Hoylake and Manor Road, both of which are situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. Hoylake railway station serves the town of Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside, England. ...
Manor Road railway station is situated between Hoylake and Meols on the Wirral, Merseyside, England. ...
A Wirral Line train at Liverpool Central. ...
Merseyrail is the name given to the electric commuter train network centred on Liverpool. ...
Sport
Golf Hoylake is the home of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, built on the site of the Royal Hotel racecourse. [4] It has hosted many major tournaments such as The Open Championship and the Walker Cup. The club is often referred to as "Hoylake". It hosted the Open again in July 2006, after a gap of almost 40 years, with Tiger Woods earning the Claret Jug for the second year in a row. The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a leading golf club in North West England. ...
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The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland (in political terms the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland). ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Personal Information Birth December 30, 1975 ) Cypress, California Height 6 ft 1 in (1. ...
The Champions Belt & The Claret Jug. ...
Hoylake-born amateur golfer John Ball Jnr. won the Open in 1890, becoming the first Englishman to do so. Another local amateur, Harold Hilton became Open champion two years later. He won again in 1897 at his home club of Royal Liverpool. John Ball (December 24, 1861-1940) was a prominent English amateur golfer of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...
1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ...
Harold Hilton was an English golfer. ...
1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Rugby Union Hoylake RFC rugby club was founded in 1922. Its predecessor, connected with the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, had been founded in the 1890s. British Open golf champion Harold Hilton was also captain of the rugby team for the 1890/91 season. [5] For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ...
Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
Sand Yachting Hoylake is one of the premier sites for Sand Yachting in Britain[7], with banks around a quarter of a mile offshore, and will be hosting the European Sand Yacht Championships which start 16th September 2007[8]. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Land yacht. ...
People The former Olympic Games cyclist Chris Boardman (1968- ) was born in Hoylake. Helen Forrester (1919- ), author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey was also born in the town. [9] The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
Chris Boardman (born August 26, 1968) is a former English racing cyclist who won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. ...
Helen Forrester (real name June Bhatia) (born 1919, Hoylake, Cheshire (now in Merseyside)) is an English-born author famous for her books about her early childhood in the Great Depression as well as several other works of fiction. ...
Former actress and current (as of 2007) Labour MP Glenda Jackson (1936- ), James Bond actor Daniel Craig (1968- ) and pianist Stephen Hough (1961- ) grew up in Hoylake. James Skelly, Bill Ryder-Jones, Nick Power, Lee Southall, Paul Duffy, and John Duffy, from the band The Coral, were also raised there. Glenda Jackson Glenda May Jackson, CBE, (born 9 May 1936) is a two-time Academy Award-winning British actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. ...
Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ...
Daniel Wroughton Craig[1] (born 2 March 1968[2]) is a BAFTA-nominated English actor best known as the sixth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official film series from EON Productions. ...
Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British-born classical pianist and composer. ...
The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula near Liverpool. ...
John Lennon's first wife Cynthia moved from Liverpool to Hoylake after their divorce in 1968 Cynthia had also grown up in Hoylake as a child. Their son Julian Lennon (1963- ) spent much of his early life in Hoylake. [10] John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
Cynthia Powell Lennon (born September 10, 1939) was the first wife of John Lennon. ...
Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
John Charles Julian Lennon known universally as Julian Lennon, (born April 8, 1963 in Liverpool, England) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and first son of Beatle John Lennon and the only child of his first wife Cynthia Lennon. ...
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