Dingle (known locally as the Dingle) is an
inner city area of
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
,
Merseyside
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,
England
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. It is located to the south of the city, bordered by the adjoining districts of
Toxteth
Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool in the county of Merseyside.
Toxteth is located to the south of Liverpool city centre, bordered by Aigburth, Canning, Liverpool, Canning, Dingle, Liverpool, Dingle, and Edge Hill, Merseyside, Edge Hill ...
and
Aigburth. At the
2001 Census, the population was recorded at 13,246.
[It is particularly known for being the Thomas the Tank Engine narrator Ringo Starr
]
History
Dingle is an area entirely within the boundaries of the old
Toxteth Park. It is named after Dingle
Brook (''Dingle'' meaning a wooded valley), which rose at High Park Street and roughly followed Park Road towards the Old Toxteth Chapel, just south of Dingle Lane, and entered the
River Mersey at Knott's Hole, which was a narrow bay or inlet next to where the Dingle flowed out to the Mersey.
On either side were steep rocky cliffs, with Dingle Point to the south west. In the 1850s the Dingle area was purely rural. Liverpool lay to the north west, but this was an area of large houses, vast gardens, babbling streams and a long beach.
It was a mainly
Protestant
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area, which developed from the influx of
Welsh settlers, whilst the north end of Liverpool such as
Everton and
Vauxhall
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From the Victorian period until the mid-20th century, Va ...
was settled by
Irish immigrants, and became mainly
Irish Catholic.
Between 1896 and 1956, the
Liverpool Overhead Railway's terminus and only underground station was
Dingle railway station, located on Park Road, the Dingle. This was the end of the line for services from Seaforth Sands in the north of the city, not to be confused with Seaforth and Litherland on the
Merseyrail line to Southport.
Description
Dingle is the last of the southern inner-city districts of Liverpool. Further south of Dingle are the suburbs. This area is traditionally
working class, housing being mostly
terraced, although many of the terraced streets are being pulled down to make room for more modern development.
Like many districts in Liverpool, there is not universal agreement about where the Dingle begins/ends. The old township of 'Toxteth Park' covers a much bigger area encompassing Parliament Street, Lodge Lane, Smithdown Road, Penny Lane, Greenbank Road, Aigburth Vale and St Michael-in-the-Hamlet. Some locals regard Dingle as being within the area encompassed by Warwick Street, in the north, Princes Road, Devonshire Road and Dingle Lane. Some define the Dingle as above but only as far as Grafton Street and not to the bank of the Mersey, as this area was part of Liverpool Docks. The area between Admiral Street and Princes Road is known as
Princes Park, after the nearby parkland.
Location filming for the
BBC
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television
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series ''
Boys from the Blackstuff'' written by
Alan Bleasdale and also ''
Bread
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'', written by
Carla Lane, was primarily in Dingle's Garswood Street and Elswick Street respectively. In 2007, residents in the Shorefields area of Dingle signed a petition to block plans for a new twelve storey residential development on the infilled
Herculaneum Dock.
Dingle is the location of the
Cast Iron Shore.
Transport
The nearest railway stations are
Brunswick for people living in the Grafton Street area and
St Michaels for those living in the Dingle Lane area.
Both stations are on the
Northern Line
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of the
Merseyrail system. Regular trains depart for Liverpool city centre,
Southport
Southport is a seaside resort, seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. It lies on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain, West Lancashire coastal plain and the east coast of the Irish Sea, approximately north of ...
and
Hunts Cross.
Bus services are provided by
Arriva North West and
Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire.
Notable people
*
Michael Angelis
Nicolas Michael Angelis (29 April 1944 – 30 May 2020) was an English actor. He was best known for his television roles as Chrissie Todd in ''Boys from the Blackstuff'', Martin Niarchos in ''G.B.H. (TV series), G.B.H.'' and as the longest-run ...
, actor
*
Arthur Askey, comedian
*
Eddie Braben, comedy writer
*
John Conteh, world light-heavyweight champion
*
Robbie Fowler, footballer
*
Billy Fury, rock and roll singer / recording artist
*
Fred Lawless, playwright
*
Gerry Marsden, singer / recording artist
*
Alan Rudkin, boxing champion
*
Mick Miller (comedian), stand-up comedian
*
Ringo Starr, musician
See also
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Dingle (Liverpool ward)
*
Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland
References
External links
Dingle, Liverpool, 1964
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