Wirral
Wirral is in Merseyside and Cheshire in England, and partly in Flintshire in North Wales. The northern part of the peninsula contains the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, which is wholly within Merseyside.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Municipality with 321,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England
- Also known as: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral” and “Wirral (unparished area)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Heswall railway station and Clatterbridge Hospital.
Heswall railway station
Railway station
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Heswall railway station serves the town of Heswall, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It is a stop on the Borderlands Line between Bidston and Wrexham Central.
Clatterbridge Hospital
Hospital
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Clatterbridge Hospital is a general hospital located on Clatterbridge Health Park in Bebington, Wirral, England. It is managed by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Brimstage Hall and Tower
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Brimstage Hall and Tower is a Grade I listed 14th century building located in Brimstage, Wirral, England. The building is composed of a 16th-century hall; rebuilt on the site of a former 12th century hall, as well as a connecting tower built in 1398.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central Wirral and Heswall.
Central Wirral
Central Wirral covers the villages of Barnston, Storeton, Brimstage, Thornton Hough, Raby and Willaston, split between Merseyside and Cheshire, England.Heswall
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Heswall is a town in on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it became part of Merseyside in 1974. At the time of the 2021 census, the population of the built up area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, was 29,075.
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.
Wirral
- Categories: metropolitan borough, unparished area, and locality
- Location: North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.341° or 53° 20′ 28″ northLongitude
-3.0501° or 3° 3′ 0″ westPopulation
321,000Elevation
213 feet (65 metres)Abbreviation
“WRL”Open location code
9C5R8WRX+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 4622721693OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wirral” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويرال”
- Armenian: “Ուիրրալ”
- Belarusian: “бора Уірал”
- Belarusian: “раён Уірал”
- Belarusian: “Уірал, раён”
- Belarusian: “Уірал”
- Belarusian: “Ўірал”
- Breton: “Distrig Wirral”
- Breton: “Wirral”
- Bulgarian: “Уиръл”
- Catalan: “Wirral”
- Cebuano: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
- Chinese: “Wirral”
- Chinese: “伟卢”
- Chinese: “威勒尔都会自治市”
- Chinese: “威勒爾都會自治市”
- Danish: “Wirral”
- Dutch: “Wirral”
- Esperanto: “Wirral”
- Finnish: “Wirral”
- French: “district métropolitain de Wirral”
- French: “District métropolitain de Wirral”
- German: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
- Hebrew: “וויירל”
- Irish: “Wirral”
- Italian: “Borgo metropolitano di Wirral”
- Italian: “Wirral”
- Japanese: “ウィラル”
- Korean: “위럴 도시 자치구”
- Latvian: “Virala”
- Lithuanian: “Viralas”
- Macedonian: “Вирал”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wirral”
- Northern Frisian: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wirral”
- Norwegian: “Wirral”
- Persian: “کلانشهر مستقل ویرال”
- Polish: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
- Romanian: “Wirral”
- Russian: “Уиррал”
- Scots: “Metropolitan Borough o Wirral”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wirral”
- Slovenian: “Wirral”
- Spanish: “distrito metropolitano de Wirral”
- Spanish: “Wirral”
- Swedish: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
- Ukrainian: “Віррал”
- Ukrainian: “метропольний район Віррал”
- Urdu: “میٹروپولیٹن برو ویرل”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Cilgwri”
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