Portal:Merseyside

The Merseyside Portal Introduction Merseyside (/ˈmɜːrzisaɪd/ MUR-zee-syde) is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool. Merseyside, which was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, takes its name from the River Mersey. Merseyside spans 249 square miles (645 km2) of land which border Lancashire (to the north-east), Greater Manchester (to the east), Cheshire (to the south and south-east) and the Irish Sea to the west. North Wales is across the Dee Estuary. There is a mix of high density urban areas, suburbs, semi-rural and rural locations in Merseyside, but overwhelmingly the land use is urban. It has a focused central business district, formed by Liverpool City Centre, but Merseyside is also a polycentric county with five metropolitan districts, each of which has at least one major town centre and outlying suburbs. The Liverpool Urban Area is the fifth most populous conurbation in England, and dominates the geographic centre of the county, while the smaller Birkenhead Urban Area dominates the Wirral Peninsula in the south. Recommended articles Places: Liverpool • Birkenhead • Southport • Wallasey Sights: Albert Dock • Anfield • Goodison Park • The Cavern Club • The Casbah Coffee Club • Cunard Building • Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral • U-534 • Pier Head • Liverpool Empire Theatre History: Port Sunlight • Museum of Liverpool • Wirral Transport Museum • Speke Hall Geography & Transport: North Wirral Foreshore • Merseyrail • Mersey Ferry • Dee Estuary • Wirral Tramway • River Mersey People: John Lennon • Daniel Craig • Brian Epstein • Mona Best • George Harrison • Paul McCartney • Rory Storm Lists: List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Merseyside • Grade I listed churches in Merseyside • List of Liverpool F.C. players • List of Everton F.C. managers • Grade I listed buildings in Merseyside Things you can do Take requested photographs Create requested pages: Missing places | Archaeological sites of Merseyside | Public parks and gardens of Merseyside | Railways of Merseyside | Rivers of Merseyside | Roads of Merseyside | SSSIs in Merseyside Expand a Merseyside stub into a full article, adding images, citations, references and infoboxes Create a new article (or expand an old one 5-fold) and nominate it for the main page Did You Know? section Improve a B-class article and nominate it for Good Article or Featured Article status Suggest articles, pictures, interesting facts, events and news to be featured here on the portal WikiProject WikiProject Merseyside Related WikiProjects UK Geography • England Greater Manchester • Lancashire and Cumbria • Cheshire • Yorkshire Related portals United Kingdom England North West England Greater Manchester Lancashire Cheshire Cumbria Associated Wikimedia