Name Irby Merseyside is of Viking origin, meaning "farmstead or settlement of the Irish".
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17 Facts About Irby Merseyside
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Irby Merseyside Hall was constructed in the early 17th century, with an entrance facade added in 1888.
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Irby Merseyside sits on the eastern side of Thurstaston Hill, at the western side of a wide and shallow glacial U-shaped valley, formed during the Quaternary Ice Age.
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Irby Merseyside is bounded by Greasby Brook, to the west, which travels through and alongside Thurstaston Common.
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Meanwhile, Irby Merseyside is bounded to the north, east and south by part of the field drainage which forms Arrowe Brook.
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Irby Merseyside has a temperate maritime climate, similar to much of the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Whilst not being diverse in terms of ethnicity, Irby Merseyside is an economically diverse neighbourhood, possessing a mixture of large 1930s built private houses together with an estate of 1970s built homes in a range of sizes and an element of 1950s built council housing all in close proximity.
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Historically within the county of Cheshire, Irby Merseyside was formerly a township in the Thurstaston and Woodchurch parishes of the Wirral Hundred.
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Irby Merseyside has a village hall, situated on Thingwall Road, which hosted a performance by The Beatles on 7 September 1962.
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The Irby Merseyside Club was formed in the early 1930s, and is in the centre of the village, in a building which was once the farm house for the former Rookery Farm.
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Irby Merseyside Library is on Thurstaston Road and was built in the late 1960s on the site of the 18th century Manor Farm.
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Anchor Inn is one of the oldest buildings in Irby Merseyside, and, according to an entry in the BBC Domesday Project, was built as a cottage in the 17th century.
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The Irby Merseyside Mill is away from the centre of the village, at Irby Merseyside Hill, towards Greasby.
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Irby Merseyside has a cricket club situated on Mill Hill Road, which was established in 1948 and promoted to the Cheshire County League in 2001.
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Irby Merseyside has its own Taekwon-Do School based at Irby Merseyside Village Hall with separate adult and children's classes.
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From Irby Merseyside, accessing the station is difficult via other public transport, and it is approximately a 45-minute walk away and offers only hourly services.
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