Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town inside the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. Generally in Cheshire, it is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, inverse the city of Liverpool. The Birkenhead Urban Area characterized as the adjacent developed zone along the eastern side of the Wirral had an aggregate populace of 325,264 in the 2011 Census.

In the 2011 statistics, the Parliamentary body electorate of Birkenhead had a populace of 88,818. The Birkenhead and Tranmere appointive ward, covering a substantially littler territory, had a populace of 15,879. The written history of Birkenhead started with the foundation of Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry in the twelfth century. Amid the nineteenth century Birkenhead extended significantly, turning into a town as an outcome of the Industrial Revolution, with Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square being models of the period.

Around a similar time, Birkenhead picked up the main road tramway in Britain. Afterward, the Mersey Railway associated Birkenhead and Liverpool, with the world's first passage underneath a tidal estuary. Birkenhead is maybe best known for the shipbuilding of Cammell Laird, and for the town's seaport. In the second 50% of the twentieth century, the town endured a huge time of decay, with containerisation causing a decrease in port movement. Amid the main portion of the 21st century, the Wirral Waters advancement is intended to recover a great part of the dockland.