page_title: Upton, Merseyside
section_title: Churches
hierarchical_section_title: Upton, Merseyside / Community / Churches
caption_attribution_description: English: Holmleigh, 8 Church Road, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, England. This detached house is used by the nearby St Mary's Church.
context_page_description: Upton is a village in the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, England, and is situated within 4 miles of Birkenhead, 4 miles of the Dee Estuary, a similar distance from the River Mersey, and 2 miles from Liverpool Bay. It is in the parish of Overchurch and administratively, the village is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the Metropolitan County of Merseyside. Upton is the traditional county of Cheshire. At the 2011 census, the population is 16,130.
  Upton was originally settled as an Anglo-Saxon farming community, and remained as a farming community until the village's rapid urbanisation and expansion from the mid-19th century. This was brought about by the development of Liverpool as a major port, with rail and road links across the Mersey estuary. The village now has a strong service economy which is based primarily around healthcare and retail, with a variety of places nearby, and within the village, to pursue sport and leisure activities.
context_section_description: St. Mary's Church  is Upton's Church of England parish church. This is a large church, which was consecrated on 28 April 1868.
  The church had its own office and meeting room, situated in Holmleigh, which was next door to the church hall, on Church Road. Holmleigh was originally built by William Inman, for his estate bailiff, in 1869. The building was given to the church, in 1884, by another owner and became the vicarage in 1911. A new vicarage was built in 1928, further down Church Road, and the building was sold. However, the church repurchased Holmleigh in 1985, when the building acquired its present use. St. Mary's Church replaced Holmleigh and the church hall, with modern housing. This led to some opposition to the proposal.
  St. Joseph's Church, the local Roman Catholic parish church, was opened on 31 August 1954. Upton's United Reformed Church was opened on 11 May 1900, with the final service held on 26 July 2015.
caption: Holmleigh, Church Road.
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