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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, after the passage of the
Local Government Act 1972, and the county consists of five
metropolitan boroughs adjoining the Mersey estuary, including the
City of Liverpool.
Merseyside County Council was abolished in 1986, and so its
districts (the metropolitan boroughs) are now effectively unitary
authorities. However, the metropolitan county continues to exist in
law and as a geographic frame of reference.
Merseyside is divided into two parts by the Mersey estuary: the
Wirral is located on the west side of the estuary upon the Wirral
Peninsula; the rest of the county is located 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 territory comprising the county of Merseyside previously formed
the county boroughs of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Bootle, and
St Helens and part of the administrative counties of Lancashire
(north of the River Mersey) and Cheshire (south of the River
Mersey).
Merseyside was designated as a "Special Review" area in the Local
Government Act 1958, and the Local Government Commission for England
started a review of this area in 1962, based around the core county
boroughs of Liverpool/Bootle/Birkenhead/Wallasey. Further areas,
including Widnes and Runcorn, were added to the Special Review Area
by Order in 1965. Draft proposals were published in 1965, but the
commission never completed its final proposals as it was abolished
in 1966.
Instead, a Royal Commission was set up to review English local
government entirely, and its report (known as the Redcliffe-Maud
Report) proposed a much wider Merseyside metropolitan area covering
southwest Lancashire and northwest Cheshire, extending as far south
as Chester and as far north as the River Ribble. This would have
included four districts: Southport/Crosby, Liverpool/Bootle, St
Helens/Widnes and Wirral/Chester.
In 1970 the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (which operates
under the Merseytravel brand) was set up, covering the Liverpool and
Wirral conurbations, but excluding St. Helens.
The Redcliffe-Maud Report was rejected by the incoming Conservative
Party government, but the concept of a two-tier metropolitan area
based on the Mersey area was retained. A White Paper was published
in 1971. The Local Government Bill presented to Parliament involved
a substantial trimming from the White Paper, excluding the northern
and southern fringes of the area, excluding Chester, Ellesmere Port
(and, unusually, including Southport, whose council had requested to
be included). Further alterations took place in Parliament, with
Skelmersdale being removed from the area, and a proposed district
including St Helens and Huyton being subdivided into what are now
the metropolitan boroughs of St Helens and Knowsley.
Merseyside was created on April 1, 1974 from areas previously parts
of the administrative counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, along
with the county boroughs of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Bootle,
and St Helens. Following the creation of Merseyside, Merseyside
expanded to take in St. Helens and Southport.
Between 1974 and 1986 the county had a two-tier system of local
government with the five boroughs sharing power with the Merseyside
County Council. However in 1986 the government of Margaret Thatcher
abolished the county council along with all other metropolitan
county councils, and so its boroughs are now effectively unitary
authorities. |
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