Birkdale
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BIRKDALE, a township-chapelry in North Meols parish, Lancashire; on the coast, and on the Southport railway, 1½ mile S of Southport. It has a r. station, several streets, good residences, and boarding-houses; and, in 1869, had greatly increased in pop., and was about to have a sewerage-system and public gardens. Post Town, Southport. Acres, 5,670; of which 3,435 are water. Pop. in 1861, 1,286. Houses, 237. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £380.* Patrons, 'Trustees. The church is recent, and has a spire.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Ormskirk library.Cemeteries
- Liverpool Rd, Cemetery
- St Mary, Liverpool Rd, Roman Catholic Cemetery, Ainsdale
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Birkdale.Church History
Church Records
- St John, Liverpool Rd, Church of England, Ainsdale
- St James, Lulworth Rd, Church of England
- St John, St John's Rd, Church of England
- St Mary's Mission, Carr Lane, Church of England
- St Peter, St Peter's Rd, Church of England
- Station Road, Congregational, Ainsdale
- Grosvenor Rd, Congregational
- Sacred Heart, Liverpool Rd, Roman Catholic, Ainsdale
- St Joseph, York Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Teresa, Everton Rd, Roman Catholic
- Chatham Rd, United Methodist Free Church
- Liverpool Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Ainsdale
- Liverpool Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
- Upper Aughton Rd/Wesley Kent Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
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