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Ainsdale is a village near Southport, in the Sefton district, in Merseyside, England, situated three miles south of the centre of Southport. Originally in the historic county of Lancashire , at the 2001 Census it had a population of 12,723. [ 1 ]
Ainsdale railway station opened on 24 July 1848 when the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR) opened its line from Waterloo to Southport Eastbank Street. [1]In 1851 a branch line was opened, without parliamentary authorisation, from the station to Ainsdale Corn Mill 53 ch (3,500 ft; 1,100 m) away on the east side of Liverpool Road.
Ainsdale is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Southport Parliamentary constituency that covers the localities of Ainsdale and Woodvale in the town of Southport. At the 2011 census it had a population of 12,102.
The Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway (SCLER) opened a line extending their existing system from Aintree to Southport on 1 September 1884. [6] Seeing the potential in Ainsdale's large beach they subsequently built this station, which opened as Seaside in 1901.
Hillside is a residential suburb of the seaside town of Southport, England. It is surrounded by Birkdale, a former town in its own right, but part of Southport itself since amalgamation in 1912. It takes its name from a building named Hill Side, clearly evident on early maps.
The Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway opened the station on 1 September 1884 as Woodville & Ainsdale, though one source refers to it as "Woodvale and Ainsdale". [6] It was renamed Woodvale on 1 May 1898. The station was built on an embankment crossing Liverpool Road and was well known for its floral displays on both platforms. [7] [8]
The area is located on the Irish Sea coast, approximately a mile away from the centre of Southport. At the 2001 census , the local government ward called Birkdale had a population of 12,265. [ 1 ] The population of the area at the 2011 Census is shown under Birkdale (ward) (qv).
English: Ainsdale Beach railway station (site), Lancashire Opened in 1901 by the Cheshire Lines Committee on the line from Liverpool Central to Southport Lord Street, this station closed in 1952. It was known as "Seaside for Ainsdale" until 1912. View north along the former trackbed towards Birkdale Palace and Southport.