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Birkenhead: A History
Elizabeth Davey
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Birkenhead is essentially a 19th-century ‘new town’, its planned grid of streets still stretching westwards from the Georgian elegance of Hamilton Square. Two hundred years ago it did not exist. The settlement, such as it was, consisted of a mere scatter of farmhouses and cottages, which supported a population in 1801 of just 17 families living in 16 houses. Yet this tiny community lying on the east shore of Wirral was not entirely a backwater. The mid-12th century had seen the foundation of a Benedictine priory, while half a century later, in 1207, the granting of letters patent to Liverpool ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750955522
SKU
V9780750955522
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Ref
99-10
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