Thingwall

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Thingwall is a village on the Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is part of the Pensby & Thingwall Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and is situated within the parliamentary constituency of Wirral West.

It is located at grid reference SU616687.

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Originally a village in Woodchurch Parish, Wirral Hundred, it was added to Birkenhead civil parish in 1933.

The population was 52 in 1801, 96 in 1851 and 156 in 1901. [1]

The name indicates that it was once the site of an Anglo-Saxon thing (or þing). Similar place names in the British Isles include Tynwald, Dingwall, and Tingwall.

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Coordinates: 51.41398° N 1.11563° W