Borough of Wirral
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	North West England
Ceremonial county:	Merseyside
Historic county:	Cheshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 208th 157.05 km²
Admin. HQ:	Wallasey
ONS code:	00CB
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 13th 313,100 1,994 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.3% White
Politics
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.wirral.gov.uk
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	All party (3)
MPs:	Ben Chapman, Angela Eagle, Frank Field, Stephen Hesford

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. Image File history File links EnglandWirral. ... A Metropolitan Borough (or Metropolitan District) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. ... The region, also known as Government Office Region, is currently the highest tier of local government subnational entity of England in the United Kingdom. ... North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ... The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. ... Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. ... The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester) [1] is a... This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a list of districts of England ordered by area. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Arms of the former Wallasey County Borough Council, 1913-74 Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the north-eastern corner of the Wirral. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per volume. ... This is a list of districts of England ordered by population. ... Arms of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. ... The United Kingdom is divided into four parts, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ... This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency. ... Ben Chapman outside South Wirral High School. ... Angela Eagle (born February 17, 1961 is Labour Member of Parliament for Wallasey. ... The Right Honourable Frank Ernest Field (born July 16, 1942, London) is a British politician, and Labour MP for Birkenhead. ... Stephen Hesford (born 27 May 1957, Altrincham) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... A Metropolitan Borough (or Metropolitan District) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. ... Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. ... North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ... The Wirral is a peninsula in North West England bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ...

Wirral Metropolitan Borough has a population of about 311,235 (2004 estimate) in an area of 60 square miles (155 km²). It faces Liverpool over the River Mersey to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and the River Dee to the west. To the south it borders the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston, in Cheshire. Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in North West England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... Ferry across the Mersey, June 2005 The River Mersey is a river in north-western England. ... Relief map of the Irish Sea. ... Old Dee Bridge, River Dee, Chester, England (2002) The River Dee (Welsh: Afon Dyfrdwy) is a 70 mile (110 km) long river, which rises in Snowdonia, Wales and discharges to the sea a few miles west of Liverpool. ... Ellesmere Port and Neston is a local government district, borough and parliamentary constituency in Cheshire, England. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester) [1] is a...

Major towns and villages in the borough include Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Heswall and Hoylake. See also: Category:Towns and villages in Wirral Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ... Arms of the former Wallasey County Borough Council, 1913-74 Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the north-eastern corner of the Wirral. ... Arms of Bebington Borough Council Location within the British Isles Bebington is a town in Merseyside, England. ... Location within the British Isles Heswall is a town on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. ... Error creating thumbnail: convert: Corrupt image `/mnt/upload3/wikipedia/en/7/71/Hoylake_-_Wirral_dot. ...

History

The borough was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the county boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey, along with the municipal borough of Bebington and the urban districts of Hoylake and Wirral. The area lies in the traditional county of Cheshire. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ... A borough is a political division originally used in England. ... Arms of Bebington Borough Council Location within the British Isles Bebington is a town in Merseyside, England. ... In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ... Error creating thumbnail: convert: Corrupt image `/mnt/upload3/wikipedia/en/7/71/Hoylake_-_Wirral_dot. ... Wirral was an urban district in Cheshire, England from 1933 to 1974. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester) [1] is a...

An opinion poll conducted by MORI in 2003 showed that 45% of people polled felt they "belong[ed] to" Merseyside "very strongly" (13%) or "fairly strongly", compared to a figure of 30% for Cheshire (17% of whom felt "very strongly"). 78% felt they strongly belonged to the Wirral council area. ^[1]

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Wirral at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

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In September 2006 a large scale development called Wirral Waters was unveiled by the company Peel Holdings, that if constructed as outlined may see the creation of up to 27,000 jobs. Wirral Waters is a large scale £4. ...

Education

When the borough was set up in 1974, it inherited comprehensive systems from the former County Boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey. In the part of Wirral formerly administered by Cheshire County Council, it inherited a selective system of grammar and secondary modern non-Roman Catholic schools and a comprehensive Roman Catholic school (St John Plessington Catholic College).

Until the implementation of the Education Reform Act 1988, education in Wirral continued to be organised in four areas; Birkenhead, Wallasey and the former parts of Cheshire known for education purposes as "Bebington" and "Deeside". However this Act introduced "open enrolment", allowing parents from anywhere in the borough, and outside it, to apply for a place for their child at any secondary school. As a result significant numbers of pupils from the former "comprehensive areas" attend schools in the former "selective areas" and vice versa. The distinction between different types of school was to an extent masked, as all secondary modern and most comprehensive schools were named "High School". As a further result of this Act, St Anselm's College and Upton Hall Convent School, both within the Birkenhead education area, became the first and only independent schools in the country to become state funded Grant Maintained schools, retaining selective admissions policies to become Roman Catholic grammar schools.

A further change came as a result of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, which effectively changed secondary modern schools into comprehensives as schools were no longer permitted to select by examination failure. In summary, Wirral now has a state secondary sector made up of 16 comprehensive schools (of which two are Roman Catholic) and 6 grammar schools (of which two are Roman Catholic).

Ofsted publishes an annual list of schools that it has judged to be "particularly successful". Wirral secondary schools which have appeared in that list are: Calday Grange Grammar School (2001-6, Pensby High School for Girls (2000/1), Plessington Catholic Technology College (1997/8), Ridgeway High School (2000/1), St Anselm's College (1999/2000 and 2004/5), St Mary's Catholic College (2001/2), West Kirby Grammar School (1994/5), Wirral Grammar School for Girls (1997/8 and 2003/4) and Woodchurch High School Engineering College (1998/9 and 2004/5). Ofsted has not inspected any of Wirral's independent schools. Ofsted logo The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial government department, established in 1993 under the Education (Schools) Act 1992. ... A view of the front of Calday Grange Grammar School, prior to extensive refurbishment. ...

See also: Category:Schools in Wirral

Parliamentary constituencies

• Birkenhead
• Wallasey
• Wirral South
• Wirral West

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References

Darren Finnigan - Ex-Member of Woodchurch High School

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External links

• Wirral Property Lettings
• Wirral Council home page
• Vision of Britain
• The Wirral Wide Web

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