Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.
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18 Facts About Huyton
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Historically in Lancashire, Huyton was an ancient parish which in the mid-19th century contained Croxteth Park, Knowsley and Tarbock, in addition to the township of Huyton-with-Roby.
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Huyton-with-Roby is situated near to the south-western extremity of the former Lancashire coalfield.
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Huyton hosted three wartime camps: an internment camp, a prisoner-of-war camp, and a base for American servicemen.
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Huyton internees included artists Martin Bloch, Hugo Dachinger, and Walter Nessler, dancer Kurt Jooss, musicians, sociologist Norbert Elias, anthropologist Eric Wolf and composer Hans Gal.
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Huyton was brought to national attention in 2005 after the racially motivated murder of black teenager Anthony Walker in McGoldrick Park.
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On 1 April 1974, Huyton-with-Roby became part of the new metropolitan borough of Knowsley.
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Huyton is located just west of the M57 motorway which marks its border.
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Huyton has one secondary school—Lord Derby Academy on Seel Road—and fifteen primary schools.
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Shopping centre of Huyton is still referred to by local people as "the village" or "the villie", which dates back to the days when the centre was a rural village community.
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Huyton has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V It has one of the biggest dogs' homes in Merseyside, Dogs' Trust, located on Whiston Lane.
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Huyton has its own cricket club, located off Huyton Lane which was founded in the mid-1860s by the Stone family and the town has produced at least one first class cricketer: Reginald Moss.
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Huyton had a professional rugby league club from 1968 to 1985.
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Huyton RLFC struggled in the second division of the Rugby Football League until 1985 when they were replaced by Runcorn Highfield.
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Huyton has many amateur football teams at both junior and senior level, but only one FA Charter Standard Club, Paramount Community Football Club.
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Huyton does not have its own hospital, therefore most of its famous sons and daughters will have been born elsewhere, usually in Liverpool or Whiston.
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