Dingle, Liverpool

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The Dingle is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city, bordered by Toxteth, Wavertree and St Michael's Hamlet.

1 History
2 Description
3 Attractions
4 Transport
5 Famous people
6 Other Sites

[edit] History

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Dingle is an area entirely within the boundaries of the old Toxteth Park. It is within the area encompassed from River front to River front, by Warwick Street,in the North, Upper Warwick Street, Princes Road, Devonshire Road, and Dingle Lane. (It is not to be confused with Toxteth which is a much bigger area contained within Parliament Street, Lodge Lane, Smithdown Road, Penny Lane, Greenbank Road, Aigburth Vale, and St Michaels to the river).

It is named after Dingle Brook (Dingle- a wooded valley) which rose at High Park Street and roughly followed Park Road, towards the Old Toxteth Chapel, down just South of Dingle Lane and entered the Mersey at Knott's Hole, which was just behind Dingle Point. It was a mainly Protestant area which developed from the influx of Welsh settlers, whilst the North end of Liverpool was settled by Irish immigrants, and became mainly Catholic.

[edit] Description

Dingle is the last of the southern inner-city districts of Liverpool. Further south of Dingle are the suburbs. This area is traditionally working class, housing being mostly terraced, although many of the terraced streets are being pulled down to make room for more modern development to attract wealthier middle class workers. The area is known locally as The Dingle.

The BBC television series Bread, written by Carla Lane, was filmed in Dingle.

Dingle has the postcode L8.

[edit] Attractions

Princes Park

[edit] Transport

The closest railway station to The Dingle is Brunswick, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail system. Regular trains depart for Liverpool city centre, Southport and Hunts Cross.
The Liverpool Overhead Railway's terminus and only underground station was located on Park Road. This was the end of the line from Seaforth and Litherland. The people.

[edit] Famous people

Ringo Starr, The Beatles' drummer, was born in Dingle in 1940.

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