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Crosby Beach is part of the Merseyside coastline north of Liverpool in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, England, stretching about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) North-West from the Seaforth Dock in the Port of Liverpool, through Waterloo, where it separates the sea from the Marina. The beach was awarded Keep Britain Tidy's Quality Coast Award in 2011.
Sefton Coast is a 4605.3 hectare (11379.9 acre) site of special scientific interest in England which stretches for 12 miles (20 km) between Southport and Waterloo, ending with Crosby Beach. The site was notified in 2000 for both its biological and geological features.
The work proved controversial due to the naked statues but has increased tourism to the beach. After being exhibited at two other locations, it was put on display at Crosby on 1 July 2005. After some controversy, Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council decided on 7 March 2007 that the sculptures should be permanently installed at the beach. [2] [3]
Crosby formed part of the Crosby parliamentary constituency from 1950 until 2010. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party; prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MPs elected at every election barring the 1981 Crosby by-election where Shirley ...
Brighton-le-Sands is an area of Merseyside, England, in the borough of Sefton. It is located close to Crosby, situated between Blundellsands to the north, Waterloo to the south and Great Crosby to the east. Crosby Beach, the site of Anthony Gormley's Another Place statues, [1] borders the area to the west.
Waterloo is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England.Together with Seaforth, the two setlements make up the borough's Church ward.The area is bordered by Crosby to the north, Seaforth to the south, the Rimrose Valley country park to the east, and to the west Crosby Beach and Crosby Coastal Park.
The area was created as a suburb for wealthy businessmen from Liverpool by the Blundell family of Crosby Hall in the middle of the 19th century. It is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, and a Sefton council electoral ward. At the 2001 Census the population was recorded as 11,514. [1] This area was not measured in the 2011 Census.
On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished [4] and the whole of Crosby became part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Sefton. From 1918 to 1950 Seaforth was within the Parliamentary constituency known as Waterloo , a safe seat for the Conservative Party , and then until 2010 within the Crosby constituency, whose MP from 1997 to 2010 was Claire ...