Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town on Merseyside, England, on the Wirral peninsula in the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, across the River Mersey from Liverpool.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Prenton Park and Echo Arena Liverpool.
Prenton Park
Stadium
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Prenton Park is a football stadium in the area of Prenton, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It is the home ground of Tranmere Rovers Football Club since opening in 1912, and formerly the home ground of Liverpool Reserves and Liverpool Women.
Echo Arena Liverpool
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Liverpool Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The venue hosts live music, comedy performances and sporting events, and forms part of Liverpool event campus ACC Liverpool – an interconnected arena, exhibition and convention centre.
Birkenhead Park
Park
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Birkenhead Park is a major public park located in the centre of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It was designed by Joseph Paxton and opened on 5 April 1847.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Liverpool and Wallasey.
Liverpool
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Liverpool is a big city in Merseyside, England, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, famed for its football teams, the Grand National horse race, music, vibrant nightlife and its links with the arts and culture.
Wallasey
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Wallasey is on the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside and includes the seaside resort of New Brighton and the district areas of Liscard, Poulton, Egremont and Seacombe.
Port Sunlight
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Port Sunlight is on the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside. Port Sunlight is a model village with 900 Grade II listed buildings, the Sunlight Soap Museum and Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Birkenhead
- Type: Town with 325,000 residents
- Description: town in Merseyside, England
- Categories: big city, unparished area, and locality
- Location: Wirral, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.3895° or 53° 23′ 22″ northLongitude
-3.0248° or 3° 1′ 29″ westPopulation
325,000Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BRKOpen location code
9C5R9XQG+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 26703037OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Xhosa—“Birkenhead” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيركنهيد”
- Azerbaijani: “Berkenhed”
- Basque: “Birkenhead”
- Belarusian: “Беркенхед”
- Belarusian: “Бэркенгэд”
- Bengali: “বিরকেনহেড”
- Breton: “Birkenhead”
- Breton: “Kione Beih”
- Breton: “Penbedw”
- Catalan: “Birkenhead”
- Cebuano: “Birkenhead”
- Chinese: “伯肯赫德”
- Chinese: “伯肯赫特”
- Chinese: “伯肯黑德”
- Czech: “Birkenhead”
- Dutch: “Birkenhead”
- Esperanto: “Birkenhead”
- Estonian: “Birkenhead”
- Faroese: “Birkenhead”
- Finnish: “Birkenhead”
- French: “Birkenhead”
- Georgian: “ბერკენჰედი”
- German: “Birkenhead”
- Greek: “Μπίρκενχεντ”
- Gujarati: “બર્કેનહેડ”
- Hebrew: “בירקנהד”
- Icelandic: “Birkenhead”
- Irish: “Birkenhead”
- Italian: “Birkenhead”
- Japanese: “バークンヘッド”
- Japanese: “バーケンヘッド”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ಕೆನ್ಹೆಡ್”
- Korean: “버컨헤드”
- Korean: “버켄헤드”
- Korean: “버킨헤드”
- Korean: “비컨헤드”
- Ladin: “Birkenhead”
- Latvian: “Bērkenheda”
- Lithuanian: “Berkenhedas”
- Lithuanian: “Birkenhead”
- Livvi: “Penbedw”
- Luxembourgish: “Birkenhead”
- Macedonian: “Беркенхед”
- Malayalam: “Birkenhead”
- Malayalam: “ബ്രിക്കൻഹെഡ്”
- Manx: “Birkenhead”
- Manx: “Kione Beih”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Birkenhead”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birkenhead”
- Norwegian: “Birkenhead”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beorcenheafod”
- Persian: “برکن هد”
- Persian: “برکنهد”
- Polish: “Birkenhead”
- Portuguese: “Birkenhead”
- Romanian: “Birkenhead”
- Russian: “Беркенхед”
- Russian: “Биркенгед”
- Russian: “Биркенхед”
- Scots: “Birkenhead”
- Serbian: “Berkenhed”
- Serbian: “Birkenhead”
- Serbian: “Беркенхед”
- Serbian: “Биркенхед”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Birkenhead”
- Silesian: “Birkenhead”
- Slovak: “Birkenhead”
- Slovenian: “Birkenhead”
- South Azerbaijani: “برکنهد”
- Spanish: “Birkenhead”
- Swedish: “Birkenhead”
- Tamil: “பிறகென்ஹெஞ்ட்”
- Tatar: “Бөркенһед”
- Telugu: “బిర్కెన్హెడ్”
- Thai: “เบอร์เคนเฮด”
- Turkish: “Birkenhead”
- Ukrainian: “Беркенгед”
- Ukrainian: “Беркенхед”
- Urdu: “برکن ہیڈ”
- Uzbek: “Birkenhead”
- Venetian: “Birkenhead”
- Volapük: “Birkenhead”
- Welsh: “Penbedw”
- Xhosa: “Birkenhead”
- “Birkenhead”
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