Kennessee Green is a village in the southern half of

Maghull Maghull ( ) is a town and civil parish in Sefton, Merseyside (historically a part of Lancashire). The town is north of Liverpool and west of Kirkby. The area also contains Ashworth Hospital. Maghull had a population of 20,444 at the 2011 Census ...

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. Kennessee Green has two churches: St Andrew's Church and St. Georges Church. The village of Kennessee Green is situated around

Maghull railway station Maghull railway station is a railway station in Maghull, a suburb of Liverpool, England. It is situated on the Ormskirk branch of the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. During the 2013/14 period, it was the tenth busiest station on the M ...

, St Andrew's Church and the former epileptic homes located around Damfield Lane and Deyes Lane. The village also contains two high schools,

Deyes High School Deyes High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form situated in Maghull on the outskirts of Liverpool, England. History The school was opened in March 1939 by Sir Peter Meadon, Lancashire's director of education at a cost of � ...

and

Maricourt High School "Let us Rejoice in the Lord" , established = 1957 , closed = , type = Voluntary Aided , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic , president = , head_teacher = , r_head_ ...

History

Historically in

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

, Kennessee Green grew when the

Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway The Liverpool, Ormskirk & Preston Railway in north-west England was formed in 1846. It was purchased by the East Lancashire Railway the following year and opened to traffic on 2 April 1849. The railway ran from a junction with the Liverpool an ...

was founded. Wealthy families moved from

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

to the area and lived in the large Victorian houses around Tree View Court and

. By 1901, Kennessee Green was significantly larger than Maghull itself, and was connected to Maghull through various narrow roads. During the 20th century, Kennessee Green and Maghull both grew with housing estates being built which consequently connected the areas together. The new housing estates did not respect the historic street patterns of both of the villages. In 1974, Kennessee Green and Maghull were moved from the

West Lancashire Rural District West Lancashire was a rural district from 1894 to 1974 in Lancashire, England. It was created with other rural districts in 1894, based on the Ormskirk rural sanitary district. It was expanded in 1932 by the abolition of the Sefton Rural Distric ...

in the administrative and ceremonial county of

and placed into the newly formed

in the also newly formed ceremonial county of

. There are no signs to mark Kennessee Green as it is contiguous with Maghull.

Shopping

Kennessee Green has no significant centre but it has a small busy row of shops called Tree View Court referred to as Station Shops, they are located on the junction of Station Road and Tailors Lane and one block from the railway station and the Great Mogul Pub. Tree View Court includes a newsagent, a pharmacy, and a One Stop convenience store amongst other shops.

Transport

Kennessee Green includes

, with services to

and

Ormskirk Ormskirk is a market town in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England, north of Liverpool, northwest of St Helens, southeast of Southport and southwest of Preston. Ormskirk is known for its gingerbread. Geography and administr ...

operated by

Merseyrail Merseyrail is a commuter rail network serving the Liverpool City Region and adjacent areas of Cheshire and Lancashire. Merseyrail operates 66 railway stations across two lines – the Northern Line and Wirral Line, which are dedicated electri ...

. Kennessee Green is also close to

Switch Island Switch Island is a major road junction near Aintree in Merseyside, England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton. The junction is at the western terminus of both the M57 and M58 motorways, which converge on the A59 trunk road, the north-s ...

, one of the largest junctions in the Merseyside area, with the M57 and M58 motorways nearby. And the A59 is situated to the west of the village, connecting Maghull and Kennessee Green with Liverpool, Aintree,

Litherland Litherland is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside. It was an urban district, which included Seaforth and Ford. It neighbours Waterloo to the north, Seaforth to the west, and Bootle to the south and is approximately north ...

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and Ormskirk. Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton Maghull {{Merseyside-geo-stub