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Egremont, Merseyside: Introduction

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Egremont takes its name from a Cumberland town nobody in the area had ever seen. In 1835 a Captain Askew bought land on the Wirral shore of the Mersey and built himself a house, and rather than pick a Cheshire name he gave the future village the name of his birthplace in Cumberland, far up the western coast. The name stuck. Today Egremont is a north-eastern district of Wallasey, sitting between New Brighton to the north and Seacombe to the south, a working neighbourhood of terraced streets that ends abruptly at the Mersey promenade with one of the best free views in the north of England, straight across the river to the Liverpool waterfront.

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Egremont, Merseyside: Before the Captain

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Until the 1820s, what would become Egremont was simply the eastern edge of the Liscard township, an area of farmland sloping down to the Mersey. The earliest building of note was the Liscard Manor House, also called Seabank, built in the 1790s and home in turn to the influential ...

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Egremont, Merseyside: The Longest Pier

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Egremont Ferry was built in 1827, running between Egremont and the Liverpool waterfront, and at its peak it boasted the longest pier on Merseyside. The pier reached so far out into the river that passengers could board at any state of the tide, which mattered on the Mersey where ...

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Egremont, Merseyside: Tobin Street and the Beehive

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tobin Street runs down to the promenade and marks the boundary between the Liscard and Seacombe wards. It is named for John Tobin, who owned the land along this entire stretch of the waterfront and gave it to the community on his death. His house stood in what is now Central Park...

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Egremont, Merseyside: The MV Egremont

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

One Egremont survives at sea, in a manner of speaking. The MV Egremont was a Mersey ferry named for the town, retired in 1975 and sold to the Island Cruising Club in Salcombe, Devon, where she was moored as a floating clubhouse and sail training base. Generations of teenagers lea...

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Egremont, Merseyside: A View Across the Mersey

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Today most of Egremont is three- and four-bedroom terraces and semi-detached homes, a working-class suburb that has held its character through decades of change in the rest of Wallasey. King Street is the local high street, a small shopping run with the kind of shops a residentia...

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