Merseyside

**Merseyside** is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. Taking its name from the River Mersey, the title "Merseyside" came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974.

Merseyside is divided into two parts by the Mersey estuary: the Wirral is on the west side of the estuary upon the Wirral Peninsula; the rest of the county is on the east side. The northern part of Merseyside borders onto Lancashire to the north, Greater Manchester to the east, both parts border Cheshire to the south.

The football clubs are Liverpool and Everton, which they play. Also, they played together in a derby, the Merseyside derby.

### Metropolitan boroughs

Merseyside contains the metropolitan boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and the Wirral.

## Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Merseyside at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by _Office for National Statistics_ with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
|Year||Regional Gross Value Added||Agriculture||Industry||Services|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1995|**10,931**|50|3,265|7,616|||||
|2000|**13,850**|29|3,489|10,330|||||
|2003|**16,173**|39|3,432|12,701|||||

## Settlements

Merseyside is divided into two parts by the Mersey estuary, the Wirral is on the west side of the estuary, upon the Wirral Peninsula and the rest of the county is on the east side of the estuary.

The two parts are linked by two road tunnels, a railway tunnel, and the famous Mersey Ferry. Other districts that are part of the urban area (but not part of Merseyside) are Ellesmere Port and Neston and Halton. The designation "Greater Merseyside" has been adopted for the area that includes Merseyside and Halton, the term "Liverpool City-Region" is less well-defined. Most of the region was once served by the now scraped MTL Trust Holdings Ltd transport company.

## Places of interest

- Anfield
- St Helens' World of Glass

## Other websites

- Mersey Wiki
- Merseytravel website
- Merseyside Police Authority website
- Merseyside Fire and Rescue website
- Merseyside.com local guide, A-Z, street index
- Merseyside Today - regional guide
- Mersey Reporter History - Merseyside History

## Infobox (england county)

- **name**: Merseyside
- **flag image**:
- **arms image**:
- **map**:
<small>_Shown within England_</small>
- **status**: Metropolitan county &
Ceremonial counties of England, Ceremonial county
- **origin**: 1974
<small>(Local Government Act 1972)</small>
- **region**: North West England
- **arearank**: List of Ceremonial counties of England by Area, Ranked 43rd
- **area km2**: 645
- **ons**: 2B
- **nutscode**: 2
- **nuts3**: UKD5
- **poprank**: List of ceremonial counties of England by population, Ranked 9th
- **popestdate**: 2004
- **pop**: 1,365,900
- **density km2**: 2118
- **ethnicity**: 97.1% White British 2.9% Black British, British Asian, British Chinese, British Mixed
- **mps**: *<small> Peter Dowd Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Ben Chapman (politician), Ben Chapman Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Claire Curtis-Thomas Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Angela Eagle Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Maria Eagle Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Louise Ellman Labour Party (UK), (L)/Co-operative Party, (Co-op)</small>
* <small>Frank Field (UK politician), Frank Field Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Stephen Hesford Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>George Howarth Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Jane Kennedy (politician), Jane Kennedy Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Peter Kilfoyle Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Edward O'Hara Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>John Pugh Liberal Democrats (UK), (LD)</small>
* <small>Robert Nelson Wareing, Robert Wareing Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>David Leonard Watts, David Watts Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
* <small>Shaun Woodward Labour Party (UK), (L)</small>
- **subdivmap**:
- **subdivs**: #Liverpool, England, Liverpool
# Wirral (borough), Wirral