Kirkdale, Liverpool

Kirkdale

St. John the Evangelist Church, Fountain Road, Kirkdale
Kirkdale
Kirkdale shown within Merseyside
Population 16,115 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SJ337927
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LIVERPOOL
Postcode district L4, L5, L20
Dialling code 0151
Police Merseyside
Fire Merseyside
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament

Kirkdale is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council ward that covers both Kirkdale and Vauxhall. At the 2011 Census, the population was 16,115.[1]

Description

Kirkdale is a working class area with mainly Victorian terraced houses. From 1885 to 1983 it was part of the Liverpool Kirkdale constituency.

Kirkdale is bordered by Bootle to the north, Walton and Everton to the east, and Vauxhall to the south.

Boundary Street was an ancient division between the township of Kirkdale and Liverpool before Liverpool's expansion took in Kirkdale in the 1860s and thus separates Kirkdale and Vauxhall.

Kirkdale is now undergoing a large amount of regeneration, the old Easby estate has been demolished to make way for new 2, 3 and 4 bedroom properties. These homes have been built for both local residents and people from elsewhere to move into the area.

Transport

There are three railway stations in the district, owing to its size and location near where the Merseyrail Northern Line branches diverge. The stations are: Bank Hall, near the boundary with Bootle on the branch to Southport; Kirkdale station itself, serving the main housing area and Sandhills, a busy station acting as the Northern Line junction station.

Places of worship

St. Lawrence with St. Paul's, Kirkdale is the Church of England parish church. The parish boundary runs from the edge of Bootle to the north down until the edge of the Vauxhall area and to the edge of Walton in the east. St. Lawrence church joined with St. Paul's in 2002 when the parish of St. Paul with St. Mary's, Bootle, was split in two and brought into the Liverpool North Deanery, in Liverpool Diocese.[2] Liverpool Youth For Christ is currently based in The Shepherd Centre, a specially designed community centre attached to the St. Paul's building.[3]

The Catholic community is served by the Parish of St John and St John the Evangelist's Church, a Grade II listed building. The affiliated primary school is located across Sessions Road.

Kirkdale Cemetery

Kirkdale has a large cemetery containing 386 Commonwealth War Graves from World War I and 115 from World War II. Over 100 of these graves from the former war are of Canadian servicemen who died at No 5 Canadian Hospital established at Kirkdale in July 1917. There are two War Graves plots (mostly of World War I dead) with the names of those buried in them listed on Screen Wall memorials. There were formerly large numbers of graves of German and American war dead from World War I and Belgians from both World Wars but these were nearly all removed to dedicated national cemeteries within the United Kingdom or repatriated to their home countries.[4] There are also buried some of the victims of the Liverpool Blitz including notably Francis William Lionel Collings Beaumont, son of the Dame of Sark,[5] and his actress wife Mary Lawson.[6]

Notable residents

References

  1. ↑ "City of Liverpool ward population 2011". Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Diocese of Liverpool
  3. ↑ Liverpool Youth For Christ, archived from the original on 4 October 2007
  4. ↑ "Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery, with list of casualties". Commonwealth War Graves Commission date accessed = 25 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Casualty Details: Francis William Lionel C. Beaumont". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
  6. ↑ "Casualty Details: Mary Elizabeth Beaumont". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
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