Map sources for The Wirral Peninsula at grid reference SJ285850

The Wirral is a peninsula in North West England bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. It is administered by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in the north and Cheshire County Council in the south. Previously it was entirely in Cheshire as a hundred. 2006 sees the Wirral play host to The Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 134 KB) Usage is: {{GBthumb|135|132|OV000000}} File links The following pages link to this file: Slough Rothwell, West Yorkshire Saltaire Shipley, West Yorkshire Slaithwaite Wallsend Inverurie Mersea Island Laugharne, Wales Tardebigge Hamble-le-Rice Sandgate, Kent Broadway, Worcestershire Brean Down User:RHaworth/sandbox... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Peninsula A peninsula (from Latin paene insula, almost island) is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides. ... North West England is one of the regions of England. ... 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. ... Ferry across the Mersey, June 2005 The River Mersey is a river in north-western England. ... 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. ... Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England. ... Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England. ... A hundred is an administrative division, frequently used in Europe and New England, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller geographical units. ... 2005 Open Champion Tiger Woods holding the Claret Jug. ... The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a leading golf club in North West England. ...

Usage

When referring to the Wirral peninsula the name is shortened to the Wirral. Something is either in Wirral or on the Wirral.

Towns on the Wirral

Whilst the Wirral contains much countryside, there are many urban districts. Birkenhead, Bebington and Wallasey were once boroughs in their own right, while some districts were part of these. Towns on the Wirral include:

• Bebington
• Birkenhead
• Bromborough
• Eastham
• Ellesmere Port (not part of Wirral Borough)
• Greasby
• Heswall
• Hoylake
• Irby
• Leasowe
• Meols (pronounced "Mells")
• Moreton
• Neston (not part of Wirral Borough)
• New Brighton
• New Ferry
• Oxton
• Pensby
• Port Sunlight
• Prenton
• Seacombe
• Spital
• Thingwall
• Upton
• Wallasey
• West Kirby

Arms of Bebington Borough Council Location within the British Isles Bebington is a town in Merseyside, England. ... 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. ... Bromborough is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. ... Eastham is a small town, located in the Wirral area of Merseyside, England. ... Arms of the former Ellesmere Port Borough Council Location within the British Isles Ellesmere Port is an industrial town in the district of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire, England, situated in the south of the Wirral Peninsula on the estuary of the River Mersey, to the north of Chester. ... Greasby is a small village/town in the Wirral, 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. ... Irby is a village on The Wirral Peninsula and in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. ... Leasowe is a small town on the north coast of the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside in the north west of England, near Moreton and Meols. ... British Railways London Midland Region totem sign for Meols railway station. ... Moreton is a town on north coast of the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside,England. ... Location within the British Isles Neston is a small residential town situated in the south of the Wirral Peninsula, in the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire, England. ... The New Palace amusement arcade in New Brighton. ... New Ferry is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England. ... Oxton is a suburb in the Wirral, Merseyside, England, situated to the west of Birkenhead town centre. ... Pensby is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England Originally a village in Woodchurch Parish, Wirral Hundred associated hamlets of Arno Hill and Lingdale. ... Port Sunlight is a village on the Wirral (in the North West of England). ... Prenton is a suburb of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula. ... Seacombe is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England Categories: UK geography stubs | Wirral, Villages and Towns ... Spital is a small a suburb of the Wirral located on Merseyside, England. ... Thingwall is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England Originally a village in Woodchurch Parish, Wirral Hundred. ... Upton is a village on the Wirral, Merseyside close to Birkenhead. ... Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Wallasey County Borough Council Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey on the tip of the Wirral. ... West Kirby is a town located on the North East corner of the coast of Wirral, Merseyside, England. ...

Villages on the Wirral

Many villages of the Wirral are well preserved with their characteristic red sandstone buildings and walls. Villages on the Wirral include:

• Barnston
• Bidston
• Burton (not part of Wirral Borough)
• Caldy
• Capenhurst (not part of Wirral Borough)
• Claughton
• Greasby
• Heswall
• Irby
• Liscard
• Meols
• Newton
• Oxton
• Parkgate (not part of Wirral Borough)
• Pensby
• Saughall Massie
• Shotwick (not part of Wirral Borough)
• Thingwall
• Thornton Hough
• Thurstaston
• Upton
• Wallasey
• Willaston (not part of Wirral Borough)

Barnston is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. ... Bidston is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England Located adjacent junction 2, M53, the village of bidston is situated on a hill, with elevation of approximately 60m, above sea level. ... Location within the British Isles Burton is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, in the district of Ellemere Port and Neston in Cheshire, England. ... Caldy is a picturesque village on the Wirral Peninsula. ... Capenhurst is a village and civil parishes in Cheshire, England on The Wirral Peninsula. ... Claughton could be Claughton, Lancaster, Lancashire, England Claughton, Wyre, Lancashire, England This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Greasby is a small village/town in the Wirral, England. ... Location within the British Isles Heswall is a town on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. ... Irby is a village in the Wirral peninsula and borough in Merseyside, England, near Pensby. ... Arms of the former Wallasey County Borough Council Wallasey is a town on the mouth of the River Mersey on the tip of the Wirral. ... British Railways London Midland Region totem sign for Meols railway station. ... The newton (symbol: N) is the SI unit of force. ... Oxton is a village on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England that became part of the borough of Birkenhead as the conurbation grew. ... Parkgate is a village on the Wirral peninsula, in the part that remains in Cheshire, England. ... Pensby is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England Originally a village in Woodchurch Parish, Wirral Hundred associated hamlets of Arno Hill and Lingdale. ... Thingwall is a village on Wirral, Merseyside,England Originally a village in Woodchurch Parish, Wirral Hundred. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Thurstaston is a village on The Wirral Peninsula and in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. ... Upton is the name of numerous places: United Kingdom Upton, Berkshire Upton, Buckinghamshire Upton, Cambridgeshire Upton, Cheshire Upton, Cornwall Upton, Cumbria Upton, Devon Upton, Dorset Upton, Hampshire Upton, Leicestershire Upton, Lincolnshire Upton, London Upton, Norfolk Upton, Northamptonshire Upton, Nottinghamshire Upton, Oxfordshire Upton, Pembrokeshire Upton, Slough Upton, Somerset Upton, Warwickshire Upton... Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Wallasey County Borough Council Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey on the tip of the Wirral. ...

Sights

Despite containing urban and industrial areas, the Wirral still has picturesque villages, sandy beaches, large areas of land owned by the National Trust and views across the two estuaries and out into the Irish Sea. Sights or places of interest include: The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ... Relief map of the Irish Sea. ...

• Bidston Hill
• Caldy Hill
• Hilbre Island
• Leasowe Lighthouse
• Thurstaston Common
• Mersey Ferry
• Ness Gardens
• Port Sunlight
• Lady Lever Art Gallery
• Williamson Art Gallery

Bidston Hill is 100 acres of heathland and woodland that contains historic buildings and mysterious rock carvings. ... Caldy Hill is an area of heath and woodland on a sandstone outcrop on the Wirral Peninsula. ... The Hilbre Group of islands in the estuary of the River Dee, and are part of the estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest. ... Leasowe Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Leasowe, Wirral, Merseyside in the north west of England, and within the North Wirral Coastal Park, a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). ... Royden Park and Thurstaston Common comprise an area of almost 250 acres of parklands, wood and heath on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. ... For over 850 years the Mersey Ferries have provided a transport link from the Wirral over the River Mersey to Liverpool. ... Ness Botanic Gardens has evelved since Arthur Kilpin Bulley began to create a garden in 1898. ... Port Sunlight is a village on the Wirral (in the North West of England). ... Sunlight Soap magnate William Hesketh Lever, the first Lord Leverhulme, founded the Lady Lever Art Gallery in 1922 and dedicated it to the memory of his wife. ...

History

At the end of the twelfth century, Birchen Head Priory stood on a lonely headland of birch trees, facing open countryside and surrounded by the Mersey. It was from here, Merseyside's oldest building, that Benedictine monks operated the first Mersey ferry in 1330, having been granted a passage to Liverpool by a charter from Edward III. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Burscough Priory, Priory Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England was founded about 1150 for the Benedictines, the parts that remain are open to the public. ... Species Many species; see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ... The River Mersey is a river in the north west of England. ... Merseyside is a metropolitan county, located in the North West of England. ... A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of St Benedict. ... The River Mersey is a river in the north west of England. ... 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 scheduled services. ... Events The Bulgars under Michael III are beaten by the Serbs at Velbuzhd, and large parts of Bulgaria fall to Serbia. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was one of the most successful English kings of medieval times. ...

The original ferry service, now famous throughout the world, put Wirral on the map as part of the King's highway, yet for centuries the peninsula remained a cluster of small holdings and hamlets. It wasn't until the 1820s that steam-powered boats improved communication and opened up Wirral's Mersey coast for industrialisation. 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The River Mersey is a river in the north west of England. ...

Wirral's first railway was built in 1840 planned by George Stephenson and connected Birkenhead with Chester. This encouraged the growth of Wirral; Birkenhead and Wallasey grew into large towns. In 1847, Birkenhead's first docks and its municipal park, the first in Britain and the inspiration for New York's Central Park, were opened. 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... George Stephenson Statue of George Stephenson at the National Railway Museum, York George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English mechanical engineer who designed a famous and historically important steam-powered locomotive named Rocket, and is known as the Father of British Steam Railways. ... 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. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. ... 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. ... Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Wallasey County Borough Council Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey on the tip of the Wirral. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 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. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... A Central Park landscape Central Park (, ) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ...

The Mersey Railway led to increased development after 1886, when pioneering Victorian engineers were the first in the world successfully to tunnel a railway beneath a major river. The first tunnel was supplemented by a vehicle tunnel in 1934 (Queensway) and a third in 1971 (Kingsway). Sign from the Water Street entrance to James Street. ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Queensway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey in Merseyside, in the north west of England, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... The Kingsway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey in Merseyside, northwest England, between Liverpool and Wallasey. ...

Wirral's dockland areas of Wallasey and Birkenhead continued to develop and prosper. The 1820s saw the birth of the renowned shipbuilding tradition when John Laird opened his Cammell Laird yard and a host of other port-related industries came into existence, such as flour milling, tanning, edible oil refining and the manufacture of paint and rubber-based products. A large chemical and oil refining complex is still in Ellesmere Port. Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Wallasey County Borough Council Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey on the tip of the 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. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Cammell Laird logo Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. ... Look up flour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... Arms of the former Ellesmere Port Borough Council Location within the British Isles Ellesmere Port is an industrial town in the district of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire, England, situated in the south of the Wirral Peninsula on the estuary of the River Mersey, to the north of Chester. ...

Another important development was the building in 1888 of the now famous industrial village of Port Sunlight, designed to house employees at the original firm of Lever Brothers, now part of the Unilever group. The village, which turned Lord Leverhulme's philanthropic dream into reality provided workers with a benign environment. Port Sunlight is a village on the Wirral (in the North West of England). ... Unilever (Euronext: UNA, LSE: ULVR, NYSE: UN) is an Anglo-Dutch company that owns many of the worlds consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Wirral in literature

Sir Gawain spent Christmas on Wirral before his confrontation with the Green Knight. Wilfred Owen, the greatest poet of the First World War, grew up in Tranmere, on Wirral. In Arthurian legend, Sir Gawain (Gawan, Gawein) features as a knight of the Round Table. ... Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet. ... Tranmere is an area in Birkenhead on the Wirral. ...

Famous people

• Ian Botham (cricketer)
• Pete Burns (singer/songwriter)
• Daniel Craig (actor)
• Matt Dawson (rugby player and TV personality)
• Dixie Dean (footballer)
• Lottie Dod (Wimbledon tennis champion, "most versatile female athlete of all time")
• Austin Healey (rugby player)
• Andrew Irvine (Everest climber)
• Glenda Jackson (actress and politician)
• Andy McCluskey (musician)
• Paul O'Grady (comedian and TV personality)
• John Peel (disc jockey and radio presenter)
• Patricia Routledge (actress)
• FE Smith (Lord Chancellor)
• Philip Toosey (Hero of the Bridge on the River Kwai)

The Wirral is also home to the bands Half Man Half Biscuit, The Coral, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Alexis Blue and Zephoria. Ian Terence Botham OBE, (born November 24, 1955 in Heswall, Cheshire) (nicknamed Beefy) was one of Englands best-ever cricketers and one of the best all-round cricketers of all time. ... Pete Burns in the 1985 music video for Dead or Alives single, You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Pete Burns, (born August 5, 1959, Port Sunlight, England) is a singer/songwriter and the frontman of the New Wave band Dead or Alive, most famous for their #1 single... Daniel Craig in Layer Cake Daniel Wroughton Craig (born March 2, 1968) is an English actor. ... Matthew James Sutherland Dawson MBE (born 31 October 1972 in Birkenhead) is an English rugby union footballer who plays scrum half for Wasps having played most of his career for Northampton Saints. ... William Ralph Dean (January 22, 1907-March 1, 1980), popularly known as Dixie Dean, was an English football player, one of the most prolific centre forwards in English football history, who is best known for his exploits at Everton. ... Charlotte Lottie Dod (24 September 1871–27 June 1960) was a British athlete best known as a tennis player. ... Austin Sean Healey (born 26th October, 1973 in Wallasey) is a rugby union footballer, who plays as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented England and the British Lions. ... Andrew Sandy Irvine was one of the mountaineers (the other being George Mallory) who attempted to make the first ascent of Mount Everest. ... Glenda May Jackson, CBE, (born May 9, 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. ... Andy McCluskey Andy McCluskey was the lead singer and primary songwriter for the band OMD. He met Paul Humphreys in school and played with him in several bands, including Hitlerz Underpantz, VCL XI and the Id. ... Paul James OGrady (b. ... (Auto)biography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ... Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket Patricia Routledge, CBE (born February 17, 1929) is a popular British actress, best known for television roles such as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. ... Time magazine, August 20, 1923 Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, commonly known as F.E. Smith (July 12, 1872 - September 30, 1930) was a British Conservative statesman and lawyer of the early Twentieth Century. ... Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey (12 August 1904 - 22 December 1975) was (as a Lieutenant-Colonel) the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tamarkan in Thailand during World War II. The men under his command built the Bridge on the River Kwai which was... The Bridge over the River Kwai taken in June 2004. ... Nigel Blackwell, singer, guitarist and songwriter Half Man Half Biscuit (Nigel Blackwell, Neil Crossley, Ken Hancock and Carl Henry) often abbreviated to HMHB, are a UK rock band from Birkenhead, active sporadically since the mid-1980s, known for their satirical, sardonic and sometimes surreal songs. ... The Coral are a British band formed in 1996 in Hoylake in the Wirral near Liverpool. ... Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) were a synth pop group from the Wirral, UK, who recorded for Virgin Records (originally for Virgins DinDisc subsidiary). ... Alexis Blue are a young, unsigned, four-piece indie rock band from the Wallasey area of Merseyside. ...

Transport

The M53 runs along the length of the Wirral from near Chester. At the north eastern end, the Wirral is joined to Liverpool by three tunnels under the River Mersey: two road tunnels Mersey Tunnels, one from Wallasey and one from Birkenhead and the Mersey Railway tunnel. The Wirral Line of Merseyrail links many parts of the Wirral to Lime Street station in Liverpool and many other suburbs. The Mersey Ferry also regularly crosses to Liverpool. The nearest airports are Manchester International Airport and John Lennon Airport in Liverpool. 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... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... mers ... Sign from the Water Street entrance to James Street. ... A Wirral Line train at Liverpool Central. ... Merseyrail is the name given to the electric commuter train network centred on Liverpool and Birkenhead. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... For over 850 years the Mersey Ferries have provided a transport link from the Wirral over the River Mersey to Liverpool. ... Manchester International Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an airport in Manchester, England. ... Liverpool John Lennon Airport (IATA: LPL, ICAO: EGGP) is one of Europes fastest growing airports, having more than quadrupled its annual passenger numbers from 875,000 in 1998 to over 4. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ...

See also

• The Wirral Hundred

The Hundred of Wirral is the ancient administrative area for The Wirral Peninsula. ...

External links

• Norwegian View of Wirral History
• Web cams
• Wirral Society
• The Wirral Wide Web