In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wirral like this:
WIRRAL, a district and a hundred in the NW of Cheshire; between the Mersey and the Dee. The district contains Neston, Eastham, and Woodchurch sub-districts; and formerly contained also what is now Birkenhead district. Acres of the present district, 88,258; of the former district, 112,110. Poor rates in 1863, of the present district, £6,894; of the former district, £26,584. ...
Pop. of the present district in 1851, 14,968; in 1861, 18,420. Houses, 3,389. Pop. of the former district in 1851, 57,157: in 1861, 79,840. Houses, 12,241. Marriages in the present district in 1866, 137; births, 677,-of which 29 were illegitimate; deaths, 422,-of which 148 were at ages under 5 years, and 12 at ages above 85. Marriages in the former district in the ten years 1851-60, 3,718; births, 24,280; deaths, 13,053. The places of worship in the former district, in 1851, were 28 of the Church of England , with 16,636 sittings; 1 of English Presbyterians, with 650 s.; 2 of United Presbyterians, with 910 s.; 7 of Independents, with 2,370 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 350 s.; 2 of Quakers, with 560 s.; 13 of Wesleyans, with 2,071 s.; 1 of New Connexion Methodists, with 25 attendants; 10 of Primitive Methodists, with 610 s.; 1 of the Wesleyan Association, with 300 s.; 2 of Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, with 512 s.; 1 undefined, with 10 at.; and 4 of Roman Catholics, with 1,098 s. The schools were 39 public day-schools, with 4,844 scholars; 107 private day-schools, with 2,210 s.; 48 Sunday schools, with 4,648 s.; and 6 evening schools for adults, with 115 s. The workhouse is in Bolton-cum-Spittle township.-The hundred is mainly identical with the district; and is cut into two divisions, E and W. Acres, 79,886 and 44,900. Pop. in 1851, 8,764 and 50,866; in 1861, 69,448. Houses, 9,973.
Wirral through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wirral in Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1215
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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