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Wirral Peninsula, Wirral
Wirral may refer to: * Wirral Peninsula, a peninsula in the northwest of England, between the rivers Dee and Mersey * Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, occupying the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula * Wirral (UK Parliament constituency), a one-seat county constituency between 1885 and 1983 * Hundred of Wirral, the ancient administrative area for The Wirral * Wirral Rural District, a former local government area of The Wirral between 1894 and 1933 * Wirral Urban District, a former local government area of The Wirral between 1933 and 1974 * Wirral Metropolitan College, a college of Further Education on the Wirral Peninsula * Wirral-Enniskillen Wirral-Enniskillen is a former local service district in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is located at the confluence of the Gaspereau and Salmon rivers. History Originally settled as Gaspereau and later Gaspereau Station, when it was ..., a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick named after the Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirral Peninsula
The Wirral Peninsula (), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about long and wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpool Bay to the north. Historically, the Wirral was wholly in Cheshire; in the Domesday Book, its border with the rest of the county was placed at "two arrow falls from Chester city walls". However, since the Local Government Act 1972, only the southern third has been in Cheshire, with almost all the rest lying in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside. An area of saltmarsh and reclaimed land adjoining the south-west of the peninsula lies in the Welsh county of Flintshire. Toponymy The name Wirral literally means " myrtle corner", from the Old English , a myrtle tree, and , an angle, corner or slope. It is supposed that the land was once overgrown with bog myrtle, a plant no longer found in the area, but plentiful around Form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Borough Of Wirral
The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England. It has a population of (), and encompasses of the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula. Major settlements include Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Heswall, Hoylake and West Kirby. It is one of the six boroughs of the Liverpool City Region, a combined authority area with a population of more than 1.5 million. Wirral is England's westernmost metropolitan borough, faced by the Liverpool, City of Liverpool to the northeast over the River Mersey. Geography Bordering is the River Mersey to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and the River Dee, Wales, River Dee to the west; the borough of Cheshire West and Chester occupies the remainder of the Wirral Peninsula and borders the borough of Wirral to the south. History The borough was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the county boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey, along with the municipal bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirral (UK Parliament Constituency)
Wirral was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983, elected by the first past the post voting system. The constituency was located on the Wirral Peninsula, historically part of Cheshire in North West England. History Wirral was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. As the population of the Wirral peninsula grew, its boundaries were redrawn to allow for additional constituencies to be created. From 1974, its territory was split between the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, part of the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston which remained part of Cheshire. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, and was succeeded by the constituencies of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Wirral South and Wirral West. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Borough of Birkenhead, and the Hundred of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Wirral
The Hundred of Wirral is the ancient administrative area for the Wirral Peninsula. Its name is believed to have originated from the ''Hundred of Wilaveston'', the historic name for Willaston, which was an important assembly point in the Wirral Hundred during the Middle Ages. The ''ton'' suffix in a place name normally indicates a previous use as a meeting location for officials. During its existence, the hundred was one of the Hundreds of Cheshire. Since local government reorganisation, implemented on 1 April 1974, the area is split between Merseyside (Metropolitan Borough of Wirral) and Cheshire. Villages The Hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ... contained the following villages: References Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Hundreds of Cheshire Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirral Rural District
Wirral Rural District was a rural district on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England from 1894 to 1933. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Wirral Rural Sanitary District. From the beginning of the twentieth century, some civil parishes were transferred to the control of neighbouring local authorities. Netherpool, Whitby and Overpool had become part of Ellesmere Port Urban District by 1911. Landican, Prenton and Thingwall were absorbed into Birkenhead County Borough in 1928. Wirral Rural District was abolished on 1 April 1933 under a County Review Order, with the remaining civil parishes being split between Bebington Urban District, Birkenhead County Borough, Ellesmere Port Urban District, Hoylake Urban District, Neston Urban District, Wallasey County Borough and the new Wirral Urban District. As of the area of the former rural district is divided between the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside and the unitary authority of Cheshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirral Urban District
Wirral Urban District was an urban district in Cheshire, England from 1933 to 1974. It was created from part of the disbanded Wirral Rural District and covered an area on the south-west side of the Wirral Peninsula. The largest settlement was Heswall, where the urban district council was based. The district was abolished in 1974 to become part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Wirral which covers most of the peninsula. History The Wirral Rural District had been created in 1894 to administer the rural parts of the Wirral Poor Law Union. The rural district had subsequently ceded various areas to neighbouring urban districts and boroughs. In 1933, the residual area of the old rural district was converted into an urban district. The new district contained the six civil parishes of Barnston, Gayton, Heswall-cum-Oldfield, Irby, Pensby, and Thurstaston. (Parts of the neighbouring parishes of Arrowe, Brimstage and Thornton Hough were transferred to parishes within the new di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirral Metropolitan College
Wirral Met College is a Further and Higher Education College situated on the Wirral Peninsula, in the north-west of England. Overview Wirral Met is the largest provider of post 16 learning on the Wirral and is divided into five career-based Campuses: * Twelve Quays, Birkenhead * Wirral Waters, Birkenhead * Conway Park, Birkenhead * The Oval, Bebington * Hamilton Campus, Birkenhead The college has invested £29m in refurbishing and building the campuses, including new facilities at the Oval campus, where it supports delivery of Public Services, Sports and Outdoor Education. The campuses at Conway Park and Twelve Quays in the centre of Birkenhead have been refurbished and they support a whole range of vocational education from entry level to higher education. The campus completed at Tower Road in Birkenhead, opened in September 2015, the Wirral Waters campus, of approximately , provides courses focusing on construction. Hamilton Campus was opened in September 2021 as the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirral-Enniskillen
Wirral-Enniskillen is a former local service district in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is located at the confluence of the Gaspereau and Salmon rivers. History Originally settled as Gaspereau and later Gaspereau Station, when it was a flag station on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was renamed Wirral after the English peninsula of the same name in 1923. Amalgamated with the former community of Enniskillen, which was among the communities expropriated for CFB Gagetown. It was first settled as Adair Settlement in 1826 by Irish immigrants and renamed Enniskillen after the town in Ireland. It also included the former farming community of Blakely, which merged in 1911. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Wirral-Enniskillen had a population of 226 living in 96 of its 103 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 204. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. See also *List of comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
