13 Facts About Wirral Peninsula

Historically, Wirral Peninsula was wholly in Cheshire; in the Domesday Book, its border with the rest of the county was placed at "two arrow falls from Chester city walls".

Evidence of their occupation on Wirral Peninsula has been found, including the remains of a road near Mollington, Ledsham and Willaston.

Bromborough in Wirral Peninsula is one of the possible sites of an epic battle in 937, the Battle of Brunanburh, which confirmed England as an Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

The Domesday survey of 1086 shows that Wirral then was more densely populated than most of England, and the manor of Eastham, which covered most of the east of the peninsula from Bidston to the River Gowy, was the second largest in Cheshire.

The current Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Peninsula has a population of 312,293, and covers an area of 60.

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Wirral Peninsula is formed almost wholly from sedimentary bedrock of Triassic age, being sandstone, mudstones and siltstones.

Much of Wirral Peninsula is covered by a mantle of glacial till, a legacy of the last ice age.

Major urban centres of Wirral Peninsula are to its east: these include Birkenhead and Wallasey.

Those on Wirral Peninsula but administered by Cheshire West and Chester include:.

Reasons that are both social and geographical, accents on the east side of the Wirral Peninsula tend to show a stronger Merseyside influence than those on the west side.

Wirral Peninsula has hosted a variety of different films and television programmes.

Chariots of Fire was filmed at various locations in Wirral Peninsula including the Oval Sports Centre, Bebington, the Woodside Ferry Terminal, and Bridge Cottage in Port Sunlight village, while the 1950 Ealing comedy The Magnet was filmed in Wallasey and New Brighton.

At the north eastern end, Wirral Peninsula is joined to Liverpool by three tunnels under the Mersey: two road tunnels, one from Wallasey and one from Birkenhead, and the Mersey Railway tunnel.