Raby, Merseyside

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Raby
Raby, Merseyside (Merseyside)
Raby, Merseyside

Raby shown within Merseyside
Population 100 (2001 Census) [1]
OS grid reference SJ309799
Metropolitan borough Wirral
Metropolitan county Merseyside
Region North West
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WIRRAL
Postcode district CH63
Dialling code 0151
Police Merseyside
Fire Merseyside
Ambulance North West
European Parliament North West England
UK Parliament Wirral South
List of places: UK • England • Merseyside

Coordinates: 53°18′43″N 3°02′17″W / 53.312, -3.038

Raby is a small village located in the centre of the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. Since local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it has been situated administratively within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. At the time of the 2001 Census, Raby had a total population of 100.[1]

Geographically, the village is very near to the boundary of its historical county, Cheshire. Map Separated from Raby by the M53 motorway, the village of Raby Mere is located about three miles to the east and is now nearly contiguous with the town of Bromborough.

[edit] History

The name is of Viking origin, deriving from the Old Norse Ra-byr, meaning 'boundary settlement'. [2] It is believed to be so named because it lay close to the boundary which existed in the 10th and 11th centuries between the Norse colony in Wirral to the north, centred on Thingwall, and Anglo-Saxon Mercia to the south.[3]

Raby was a township in Neston Parish of the Wirral Hundred with a population of 131 in 1801, 195 in 1851, 350 in 1901 and 308 in 1951. [4]

[edit] Community

Raby is a rural community, comprising of a few houses, two farms and an old, thatched public house, the 'Wheatsheaf', which is well known in the locality. The pub is owned by the Leverhulme Estate, which owns much land locally.

Raby, along with the neighbouring villages of Brimstage and Thornton Hough, are within an Area of Special Landscape Value, a protective designation to preserve the character and appearance of the area. This is part of the Wirral Unitary Development Plan of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. [5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Wirral 2001 Census: Raby. Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Retrieved 21 February 2008
  2. ^ Sulley, Philip (1889). The Hundred Of Wirral. 
  3. ^ Stephen J. Roberts, A History of Wirral, 2002, ISBN 978-1-86077-512-3
  4. ^ Cheshire Towns & Parishes: Raby. GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy.
  5. ^ Brimstage, Raby & Thornton Hough: A Strategy for Change Management. Thornton Hough Community Trust. Retrieved 29 August 2007
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