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Birkenhead: Area, History and Background

Riding are well acquainted with the United Kingdom, its cities and towns.

Below is some historic, cultural and background information about the area of Birkenhead in the United Kingdom.

• Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.
• It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool.
• At the 2001 Census, Birkenhead had a population of 83,729.
• Historically part of Cheshire, it is perhaps best known as a centre for ship building, as a seaport and its related industries.
• The name Birkenhead is possibly from the Old English bircen meaning birch tree, of which many once grew on the headland which jutted into the river at Woodside.
• The earliest records state that the Mersey ferry began in 1150.
• Birkenhead retained its agricultural status until the advent of the steam ferry service in 1820.
• The Birkenhead Urban Area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics,includes Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Ellesmere Port, and the contiguous built-up areas which link those towns along the eastern side of the Wirral.
• In the 2001 Census, the area so defined had a total population of 319,675, making it the 18th largest conurbation in England and 22nd in the UK.
• Areas and suburbs of it are Bidston, Claughton, Noctorum, Oxton, Prenton, Rock Ferry, Tranmere, Woodchurch and Woodside.
• Birkenhead Market was first established on what is now the site of Birkenhead Town Hall, between Chester Street and Hamilton Street, on 10 July 1835.
• An increase in its population by 1841 led to the opening on 11 July 1845 of a much expanded market on a larger site nearby.
• During the 1970s, the commercial centre of Birkenhead was redeveloped around the principal shopping area of Grange Road.
• Following two fires at the expanded Birkenhead Market in 1969 and 1974, it was later moved to new premises adjoining the Grange Shopping Precinct development.
• Commercial expansion continued in the early 1990s when the Pyramids Shopping Centre was opened.