Claughton, Merseyside

Coordinates: 53°23′41″N 3°03′28″W / 53.3947°N 3.0577°W / 53.3947; -3.0577
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Claughton
Village
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBIRKENHEAD
Postcode districtCH41
Dialling code0151
ISO 3166 codeGB-WRL
PoliceMerseyside
FireMerseyside
AmbulanceNorth West
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53°23′41″N 3°03′28″W / 53.3947°N 3.0577°W / 53.3947; -3.0577

Claughton (

County Borough of Birkenhead, within the county of Cheshire
.

At the 2001 census, the population of Claughton was 13,723.[2] For the 2011 census the total population of Claughton Ward, which also included Noctorum, was 14,705.[3]

History

The name is of

Viking origin, deriving from the Old Norse Klakkr-tun, meaning "hamlet on a hillock".[4][5]

Claughton Manor House was built in about 1850 by local benefactor

Sir Joseph Paxton. It occupied a site between Egerton Road and Manor Hill until it was pulled down in the 1930s.[6]

Recalling his childhood in Claughton in the 1860s, the artist Harry B. Neilson wrote:

"My father still wore half-Wellington top boots and the old fashioned stocks. The ladies wore poke bonnets, crinolines, Paisley shawls, and many-flounced, voluminous skirts, while young men of fashion affected peg-top trousers, little pork-pie hats with fluttering ribbons, and Dundreary whiskers. Policemen still wore top hats. Croquet was practically the only outdoor game played by ladies."[7]

The Birkenhead Institute was founded in 1889 by a local philanthropist, George Atkin, who established the school as a commercial company with shareholders and directors.[8] Originally situated in Whetstone Lane, Birkenhead, it was relocated in the 1970s to premises on Tollemache Road in Claughton. The school closed in 1994[9] and was subsequently demolished. Wilfred Owen, the World War I poet, attended the school at its original location.[10] A residential road has been named after him on the Tollemache Road site.

Administrative history

Claughton with Grange was historically a

poor law guardians. All such townships were declared to be civil parishes in 1866, but with no change in their functions.[12]

The Birkenhead improvement commissioners' district was enlarged and incorporated to become a municipal borough in 1877.[13] All the civil parishes in the borough were united into a single parish in 1898.[11]

The population of the township was recorded at 67 in 1801, 714 in 1851[14] and 733 in 1898.[15]

On 1 April 1974, local government reorganisation in England and Wales resulted in most of the Wirral Peninsula, including Claughton, transfer from Cheshire to the new county of Merseyside.

Geography

Claughton is in the north-eastern part of the Wirral Peninsula, approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) south-south-east of the Irish Sea at Wallasey, 8.5 km (5.3 mi) east-north-east of the Dee Estuary at Caldy and 3 km (1.9 mi) west of the River Mersey at Woodside. Claughton is situated on the eastern side of Bidston Hill, with the shops and college on the A5027 road at an elevation of 25–36 m (82–118 ft) above sea level.[16]

Governance

Claughton is within the parliamentary constituency of Birkenhead. The current Member of Parliament is Mick Whitley, a Labour representative. He has been the MP since 2019.

At

Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by three councillors.[17] The most recent local elections
took place on 6 May 2021.

Economy

The village has a large number of shops, as well as cafes, bakery, florist, post office, and local

pubs
such as the 'Claughton Hotel', the 'Heather Brow' and 'Houlihan's Variety Club'.

Education

Claughton is the location of Birkenhead Sixth Form College, which was established by the local education authority in 1988.[18]

Transport

Claughton Village lies on the A5027 road, which continues on westbound to Saughall Massie and joins the A553 road towards Birkenhead.

Wirral Line of the Merseyrail
network.

Notable people

The artist Harry B. Neilson grew up in Claughton, living in a house in Forest Road called Airliewood which his father had built in 1863.[7]

War artist Edgar Downs was born in Claughton in 1876, as was Cecil Arthur Lewis, the First World War fighter ace and BBC executive, in 1898.[19]

Others

See also

References

  1. ^ "Coordinate Distance Calculator". boulter.com. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. ^ "2001 Census: Claughton". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2007.
  3. Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  4. ^ Sulley, Philip (1889). The Wirral Hundred.
  5. ^ "Key to English Place-Names: Claughton". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
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  7. ^ a b Proudlove, Christopher. "Life and times of a Comic Genius". writeantiques.com. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  8. ^ "History of Birkenhead Institute". Spirit of Birkenhead Institute. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Birkenhead Institute Grammar School". Spirit of Birkenhead Institute. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Wilfred Owen Biography". Britain Unlimited. Archived from the original on 12 November 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2007.
  11. ^ a b "Birkenhead Extension Act 1843". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Claughton with Grange Township / Civil Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  13. ^ "The incorporation of Birkenhead". Manchester Courier. 22 August 1877. p. 5. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  14. ^ "Claughton with Grange". GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Claughton with Grange Tn/CP". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  16. ^ "SRTM & Ordnance Survey Elevation Data in PHP". Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  17. ^ "Your Councillors by Ward". Wirral Borough Council. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  18. ^ "Birkenhead Sixth Form College". Retrieved 30 March 2007.
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