Tuebrook
Tuebrook | ||
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Metropolitan county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | LIVERPOOL | |
Postcode district | L6, L13 | |
Dialling code | 0151 | |
Police | Merseyside | |
Fire | Merseyside | |
Ambulance | North West | |
UK Parliament | ||
Tuebrook (or Tue Brook;
Toponymy
The origin of the name may be Tew Brook, a tributary of the Alt. The brook itself is now almost entirely piped or culverted, with the last exposed section at the back of a disused cinema.
Description
Tuebrook includes
Tuebrook has two secondary schools nearby: West Derby School located on Mill Bank and St Francis of Assisi in Newsham Park.
Government
For representation to the House of Commons, the area is within the Liverpool West Derby Parliamentary constituency.
Transport
There are regular buses (numbers 12, 13, 15, 18, 62, 68 and variants thereof) providing services to the city centre, as well as to Aigburth, Bootle, Croxteth, Huyton and Old Swan and Stockbridge village.
The area is bisected by the
The Merseytram System (Line 1) was scheduled to run through Tuebrook prior to the abandonment of the project when funding from the British Government was denied.
Tue Brook railway station used to serve the area, however the line was closed from passenger traffic in 1948. The line itself (Canada Dock Branch) is still a busy goods route. It was announced in December 2019 that Liverpool City Council had commissioned a feasibility study to consider reopening the Canada Dock Branch to passenger traffic.[3]
References
- ^ a b 2001 Census: Tuebrook, Office for National Statistics, retrieved 10 January 2009
- ^ Liverpool district spelt two different ways and the little-known reason why, Liverpool Echo, 26 March 2022, retrieved 13 April 2024
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Tyrrell, Nick (17 December 2019). "Work starts to figure out if Anfield train station could be built". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 22 December 2019.