Everything about Pensby totally explained
Pensby is a large village on the
Wirral Peninsula,
Merseyside,
England, located to the north east of
Heswall. It is part of the Pensby & Thingwall
Ward of the
Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and is situated within the parliamentary constituency of
Wirral West. At the
2001 census, the population of the village was 6,900 and the total population for the ward was 13,314.
History
The name Pensby comes from
Old Norse, meaning a village or settlement at a hill called "Penn".
The
"by" suffix, included in neighbouring place names such as
Frankby,
Greasby, and
Irby, is believed to be
Viking in origin.
Pensby was originally a village in
Woodchurch Parish,
Wirral Hundred. The population was 22 in 1801, 48 in 1901 and 2,996 in 1951.
Lower Pensby was previously known as
Newtown. This was due to the building of new houses around the turn of the
20th century at the crossroads of Pensby Road and Gills Lane.
On
1 April 1974,
local government reorganisation in England and Wales resulted in most of Wirral, including Pensby, transfer from the county of
Cheshire to Merseyside.
Education
Pensby's primary schools are Ladymount RC Primary, Pensby Park Primary and Pensby Infants and Junior schools (also known as Green Bank). The local secondary schools are Pensby High School for Boys, which was renamed
Pensby Sports College in 2005 by the
Department for Education and Skills, and Pensby High School for Girls.
Sport
The famous
Everton FC footballer
Dixie Dean played for Pensby in his early days, on the fields at the side of Gills Lane. He was sold to
Tranmere Rovers for the fee of a new kit for the team.
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