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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. Major settlements include Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Heswall, Hoylake and West Kirby.
The Wirral can be defined both as a geographical peninsula and as a socio-cultural area. The current Metropolitan Borough of Wirral has a population of 312,293 (according to the 2001 census), [21] and covers an area of 60.35 sq mi (156.3 km 2), bounded by the Cheshire Plain, the Dee and the Mersey. The Irish Sea lies to its north west side.
Birkenhead Town Hall is a civic building and former town hall in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England.The building was the former administrative headquarters of the County Borough of Birkenhead, and more recently, council offices for the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.
Hoylake and Meols (previously Central-Hoose-Meols-Park, 1973 to 1979, and Hoylake, 1979 to 2004) is a Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council ward in the Wirral West Parliamentary constituency. Councillors
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
The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the metropolitan county of Merseyside, England occupies much of the Wirral Peninsula Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wirral . Subcategories
Birkenhead (/ ˌ b ɜːr k ən ˈ h ɛ d /) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; It was part of Cheshire until 1974. The town is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool.
The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Merseyside's five borough councils, including Wirral, with some services provided through joint committees. [ 10 ] Since 2014 the council has been a member of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority , which has been led by the directly elected Mayor of the Liverpool City ...