Simonswood is a

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in the

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district of

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, England. At the 2001 census, the population was 130, increasing to 151 by the 2011 census. It was originally a

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associated with the parish of

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, and became a separate civil parish in 1866. From 1894 to 1974 it formed part of 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 ...

. On 1 April 1974, under the

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, it was transferred to the

Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley The Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England. It covers several towns and villages, including Kirkby, Prescot, Huyton, Whiston, Halewood, Cronton and Stockbridge Village; Kirkby, Huyton, and ...

in the new

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. The Simonswood parish was transferred back to Lancashire (to the West Lancashire district), on 1 April 1994. At the time of this transfer the area of the parish was , and the population was 150. There is one

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in the parish,

Simonswood Hall Simonswood Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Simonswood in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. It was built in 1687 and thoroughly restored in the 1880s. The house is constructed in sandstone with a stone-slate roo ...

, which is listed at Grade II*.

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Villages in Lancashire Civil parishes in Lancashire Geography of the Borough of West Lancashire {{Lancashire-geo-stub

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