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The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England. It has a population of 322,453 (2022), [ 3 ] and encompasses 62 square miles (161 km 2 ) of the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula .
The Wirral Peninsula (/ ˈ w ɪr əl /), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England.The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpool Bay to the north.
The council styles itself Wirral Council rather than its full formal name of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. [ 9 ] From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by Merseyside County Council .
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
Tranmere is situated on the eastern side of the Wirral Peninsula, at the western side of the River Mersey. The area is approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) south-south-east of the Irish Sea at New Brighton and about 9.5 km (5.9 mi) east-north-east of the Dee Estuary at Thurstaston .
Description: Map of Merseyside, UK with Wirral highlighted.. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 165%: Date: 1 September 2013: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData.
Villages and towns in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, United Kingdom Wikimedia Commons has media related to Populated places in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral . Subcategories
Thingwall is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside, England.The village is situated approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) to the south west of Birkenhead and 3 km (1.9 mi) north east of Heswall.