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The University of Liverpool has several halls of residence in the Sefton Park district. There was a railway station called Sefton Park, a short distance away and confusingly facing a different park (Wavertree), but it closed in 1960. The line is still in use, and the station buildings at street level survive in the form of commercial premises.
This village is home to Sefton Parish Church, Saint Helen's Well, a pre-Reformation shrine, a plague pot, the Grade II listed 'Punch Bowl Inn' and the site of Sefton Mill dating back to the Middle Ages. Local folklore has it that Sefton Hall, a Royalist stronghold, was the scene of a skirmish in the English Civil War. The Georgian Rectory to ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. It was formed on 1 April 1974 , [ 5 ] by the amalgamation of the county boroughs of Bootle and Southport , the municipal borough of Crosby , the urban districts of Formby and Litherland , and part of West Lancashire Rural District .
Sefton (army horse), a horse (survivor of a terrorist bombing in 1982) Sefton (racehorse), winner of the 1878 Epsom Derby; Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, the governing body of the borough; Earl of Sefton, part of the Peerage of Ireland; Sefton, a cultivar of Agrostis capillaris (Common Bentgrass) developed in New Zealand
The local railway station is Brunswick, located on Sefton Street in the south-western extremity of the district. The station is on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network with trains departing to Southport via Liverpool city centre and to Hunts Cross. St. James Station is a disused railway station in Toxteth.
Mossley Hill's local park is Greenbank Park, one of the most popular parks in Liverpool; two more of the city's most popular parks, Sefton Park and Calderstones Park, are also nearby. The Millennium Green, accessible from Penny Lane or Oakdale Road, is a small popular green space hosting wildflower fields and woods and is a popular dog walking ...
Fazakerley takes its name from Anglo-Saxon root words—all descriptive words pertaining to land; *Fæs-æcer-lēah.This can be broken down to fæs (border or fringe), æcer (field) and lēah, meaning a wood or clearing.
A charter conferring borough status on Sefton was issued in 1975. [8] The council styles itself Sefton Council rather than its full formal name of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council. [9] From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by Merseyside County Council. The county council was abolished ...