Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town in the county Borough of Wirral[?], Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. The first Mersey ferry began operating from Birkenhead in 1150 when Benedictine monks built a priory there. The area was later used for as a sea port and for ship building as it was close to the naval activity of Liverpool.

More information Birkenhead (http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/G32.HTM#BIRKENHEAD), Birkenhead visitor guide (http://www.birkenheadvisitorguide.co.uk/), Historic Warships at Birkenhead (http://www.warships.freeserve.co.uk/), Laird Shipbuilders (http://nautarch.tamu.edu/PROJECTS/denbigh/Laird.htm), Birkenhead Parish History (http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/chs/birken.htm), Population of Birkenhead (http://populations.com/Country.asp?ID=197&CityID=8022)

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Other places in the world also called Birkenhead include:

• Birkenhead, a suburb in North shore, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Birkenhead Point, a shopping centre in Sydney, Australia, ? (http://www.birkenheadsc.com.au/),
• Birkenhead Rock near Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa.
  • The rock was named after the British troop ship HMS Birkenhead[?] was wrecked there, a disaster that gave rise to the British Naval tradition of "Women and children first." See: Wreck of HMS Birkenhead (http://www.birkenhead.co.za/Birkenhead.htm), HMS Birkenhead (http://www.palmiped.btinternet.co.uk/Birkenhead.htm), HMS Birkenhead Memorial (http://www.overberg.co.za/birkenhead/)