Roby
Roby is a village and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. Part of the wider built-up-area of Huyton-with-Roby with Huyton, Roby is effectively a dormitory village or suburb of the adjacent City of Liverpool.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 7,250 residents
- Description: village in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England
- Also known as: “Roby, Merseyside”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roby railway station and Church of St Bartholomew.
Roby railway station
Railway station
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roby railway station serves the village of Roby, Merseyside, England. It is located 5 miles east of Liverpool Lime Street on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and 1⁄2 mile west of Huyton.
Bowring Park
Park
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bowring Park is a public park in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, near Liverpool, England. It is the oldest public park in Knowsley and includes the first municipal golf course in England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huyton and Page Moss.
Huyton
Town
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. Part of the Liverpool Built-up Area, it borders the Liverpool suburbs of Dovecot, Knotty Ash and Netherley.
Page Moss
Suburb
Page Moss is an area in the borough of Knowsley, Merseyside. It borders the city of Liverpool to the east. Previously known as "The Horns" due to the crime and previous people using guns naming them horns.
Stockbridge Village
Suburb
Stockbridge Village is an area of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 6,018. Up until 1983, the area was formerly known as Cantril Farm, and was the subject of an article in a special report by The Economist entitled "A new kind of ghetto", which described it a predominantly White area of high unemployment and low aspirations. Stockbridge Village is situated 2 miles north of Roby.
Roby
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Knowsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4091° or 53° 24′ 33″ northLongitude
-2.85532° or 2° 51′ 19″ westPopulation
7,250Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)Open location code
9C5VC45V+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 30578544OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2639276Wikidata ID
Q738490
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Roby” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Roby”
- French: “Roby”
- Irish: “Roby”
- Polish: “Roby”
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