Bidston
Parish in the County of Cheshire
Etymology
The ecclesiastical parish of Bidston contained the townships 1. Bidston cum Ford (now included in Birkenhead infra ), 2. Birkenhead (an extraparochial liberty created out of Claughton township to contain the demesne of Birkenhead Priory, chartered as a County Borough in 1877, including Arrowe, Landican, Noctorum, Prenton, Thingwall and Woodchurch from Woodchurch parish 261supra , Upton from Overchurch parish 305supra , Bidston cum Ford and Claughton cum Grange from Bidston parish, and Tranmere from Bebington parish 245supra ), 3. Claughton cum Grange (part was in Woodchurch parish, all now included in Birkenhead supra ), 4. Moreton cum Lingham (now included, with Saughall Massie, in Wallasey County Borough 323infra ), 5. Saughall Massie (cf. prec.).
Major Settlements
Other places in this Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Bidston Hall
- Bidston Hill
- Bidston Lighthouse
- Fender Bridge, Fender Lane, Fender Lane Fm
- Flaybrick Cottage
- Leasowe Rd, Leasowe Side
- Leyhall
- The Park(lost)
- Upton Rd
- Wallasey Bridge Rd
- Wallasey Pool
- Wallasey Pool Bridge
- Warringtons Bridge(lost)
- Birkenhead Ferry(lost)
- Birkenhead Hall(lost)
- Ivy Rock(lost)
- Monk's Ferry(lost)
- Wallasey Pool
- Wirral Ho(lost)
- Woodside Ferry
- Boundary Rd
- Lingdale Hill
- North Birkenhead(lost)
- Oakfield(lost)
- Oxton Rd
- Bankfield
- Bridge Ho
- Chapel Hill
- Danger Lane
- Fenderlane Fm
- Gorse Lane
- Leasowebank, Leasowe Rd
- Moreton Bridge
- New Fm
- Pasture Fm & Pasture Rd
- Reeds Bridge, Reeds Fm & Reeds Lane
- Sandbrook Lane
- Seabank
- Bridge Cottage
- Carr Fm & Carr Ho, Carr Lane, Carr Lane Fm, Carr Houses
- Fornall Bridge
- Garden Hey Terrace
- Heron Rd
- The Heyes
- Mill Ho
- Puddle Hall(lost)
- Saughall Massie Bridge
- Three Lanes End