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Blundellsands
Blundellsands (Merseyside)
Blundellsands

Blundellsands shown within Merseyside
OS grid reference SJ304990
Metropolitan borough Sefton
Metropolitan county Merseyside
Region North West
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LIVERPOOL
Postcode district L23
Dialling code 0151
Police Merseyside
Fire Merseyside
Ambulance North West
European Parliament North West England
UK Parliament Crosby
List of places: UKEnglandMerseyside

Coordinates: 53°29′N 3°03′W / 53.48, -3.05

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Description

Blundellsands lies north to the city of Liverpool with Crosby to the east and Waterloo to the south. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary Crosby is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, on Merseyside, England Waterloo is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, on Merseyside, England. The area is served by Blundellsands & Crosby and Hall Road railway stations. Blundellsands & Crosby railway station is situated in Blundellsands, a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Hall Road railway station serves the Liverpool suburb of Blundellsands, Merseyside, England. Its shoreline, the northern part of Crosby Beach, includes parts of the popular exhibit, Another Place, designed by the sculptor Antony Gormley. Crosby Beach is part of the Merseyside coastline at Crosby north of Liverpool in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, England. Another Place is a piece of modern Sculpture by Antony Gormley. Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950 is an English sculptor. Several of the Gormley statues are accessible from the Burbo Bank car park.

History

Blundellsands was named in honour of the famous Blundell family of Little Crosby, who date back to the English Reformation. Little Crosby is a small village in Merseyside, North West England. The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England first broke away from the authority of the Pope

Governance

As part of the administrative county of Lancashire, Blundellsands was part of the Great Crosby urban district which combined with other urban districts in 1927 to form the municipal borough of Crosby. An administrative county was an Administrative division in England and Wales and Ireland used for the purposes of Local government. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea Great Crosby, commonly known simply as Crosby is a suburb of Sefton on the outskirts of Liverpool, in Merseyside, North West England In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of Local government district that covered an Urbanised area Municipal boroughs were a type of Local government which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974 in Northern Ireland from 1840 to On 1 April 1974, the whole of Crosby became part of the metropolitan borough of Sefton. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England covering urban areas within metropolitan counties.

Sport

Blundellsands is the home of Waterloo Rugby Club and the West Lancashire Golf Club. Waterloo Football Club is an English Rugby Union team based at St Anthony's Road Blundellsands, Merseyside in the borough of Sefton


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