Wallasey
Sign in to saveWallasey () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is at the mouth of the River Mersey, on the north-eastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Merseyside in 1974. At the 2021 Census, the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 85,610.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Wallasey
- UK place.type
- Town
- UK place.population
- 85,610
- 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
- Wallasey
- UK place.post_town
- WALLASEY
- UK place.postcode_district
- CH44, CH45
- UK place.postcode_area
- CH
- UK place.dial_code
- 0151
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ293923
- UK place.static_image_name
- Wallasey Town Hall.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Wallasey Town Hall
- UK place.london_direction
- SE
- UK place.iso_code
- GB-WRL
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Encyclopedic overview
31 sectionsContents
- History
- Toponymy
- Early history
- Early 19th-century development
- Later growth and the 20th century
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Geography
- Liscard
- Wallasey Village
- New Brighton
- Poulton
- Egremont
- Seacombe
- Education
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Voluntary aided schools
- Media
- Television
- Radio
- Newspapers
- Transport
- Roads
- Railway
- Buses
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Wallasey () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is at the mouth of the River Mersey, on the north-eastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Merseyside in 1974. At the 2021 Census, the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 85,610.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wallasey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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