14 Facts About Halewood

Halewood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England.

Historically a part of Lancashire, Halewood originated as a small village that later became absorbed by residential development as a suburb of Liverpool.

Halewood once had a workhouse for the township's poor that opened in 1723.

The original Halewood station opened 1874 and first appeared in the timetable in May that year.

Halewood's sons are memorialised on the cenotaph in St Nicholas' churchyard.

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Halewood is home to the first war horse grave to be awarded heritage protection.

Halewood served with the 275th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 'A' Battery – 55th West Lancashire Division in most of the major battles of the First World War, including Arras, the Somme Offensive and Ypres.

The first Ford Anglia to roll of the production line at Halewood was featured as the prize in a competition in the Liverpool Echo newspaper, which was won by a Mr Taylor.

The Halewood plant was used for assembling the Ford Corsair between the model's 1964 launch and 1969.

Female machinists at Ford, Halewood downed tools and walked out in solidarity with their southern colleagues in Dagenham in 1968.

Garston and Halewood constituency was created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Maria Eagle of the Labour Party.

Halewood born Katarina Johnson-Thompson is an English track and field athlete specialising in the heptathlon and pentathlon.

Playwright Fred Lawless spent most of his childhood in Halewood and attended St Mark's Primary School in Leathers Lane.

Halewood was then elected MP for Everton between 1885 and 1892.