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Blundellsands was named in honour of the famous Blundell family of Little Crosby, Catholic recusants during the English Reformation, who owned the land upon which the area was built, beginning in the 1870s. Thomas Mellard Reade (1832-1909) architect laying out the Blundellsands estate in 1868.
Blundellsands is an area in Sefton, Merseyside, England.It contains six buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II.
Reade laid out the Blundellsands Estate in Liverpool in 1868. He also published geological works The Origin of Mountain Ranges (1886), and The Evolution of Earth Structure (1903). He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1896. He died in 1909 and had an obituary in The Times.
Richard Costain later lived at Blundellsands, located near Crosby. [7] He died in West Derby in 1902, [7] leaving the business, by then known as Richard Costain Limited, to his son William Percy Costain. [3] He died aged 63 on 1 July 1902, at 'Port-y-Shee'. [8] His funeral was at St Luke's Church, Great Crosby. [9]
Esplen was born on 7 April 1863 at Blundellsands, ... He left an estate valued at £38,551. [1] [5] Lady Esplen died on 28 July 1936 at Leyburn in Yorkshire. [10]
Crosby Hall houses the Crosby Hall Education Trust (CHET), a registered charity, which was founded in 1988. [1] CHET was opened by The Princess Margaret on 8 May 1991. [1] Its current role is to offer outdoor activity to various youth groups, besides corporate sidelines such as weddings and conferences.
Barnston - Bebington - Beechwood - Belle Vale - Bidston - Billinge - Birkdale - Birkenhead - Blowick - Blundellsands - Bold - Bootle - Bowring Park - Brighton le Sands - Brimstage - Broadgreen - Bromborough - Bromborough Pool
Ince Blundell is probably the oldest settlement within the Borough of Sefton. [2] The name Ince comes from Hinne a Celtic word meaning "island in the marsh". [2] This name bears evidence to Ince lying on a sandy ridge in the Alt valley, a place that in the past had been marshland.