Heswall
Sign in to saveHeswall () is a town in on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it became part of Merseyside in 1974. At the time of the 2021 census, the population of the built up area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, was 29,075. From 2011 to 2021, it has had annual population change of -0.13%.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Heswall
- UK place.population
- 29,075
- UK place.population_ref
- (Built up area, 2021)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Wirral
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- Merseyside
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Wirral West
- UK place.post_town
- WIRRAL
- UK place.postcode_district
- CH60
- UK place.postcode_area
- CH
- UK place.dial_code
- 0151
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ269818
- UK place.static_image_name
- Telegraph Road, Heswall - geograph.org.uk - 645655.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Telegraph Road
- UK place.london_direction
- SE
- UK place.iso_code
- GB-WRL
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- Architecture
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Geography
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- Education
- Heswall Primary School
- Transport
- Media
- Sport
- Cultural references
- Notable people
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Heswall () is a town in on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it became part of Merseyside in 1974. At the time of the 2021 census, the population of the built up area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, was 29,075. From 2011 to 2021, it has had annual population change of -0.13%.
==History== ===Early history=== Before the Norman Conquest, Heswall has been cited as a possible location for Dingesmere, mentioned with regard to the Battle of Brunanburh, in ''Egil's Saga. Heswall was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Eswelle, owned by Robert de Rodelent, who also owned much of the land on the eastern side of the River Dee. In 1277, it became the property of Patrick de Haselwall, who was Sheriff of Cheshire.