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"THINGWELL, a township in the parish of WOODCHURCH, lower division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 5½ miles (N. by W.) from Great Neston, containing 78 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Thingwall was a township in Woodchurch ancient parish, Wirral hundred (SJ 2884), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The civil parish was abolished in 1933 to become part of Birkenhead.
- The population was 52 in 1801, 96 in 1851, and 156 in 1901.
For the period after 1933, see Birkenhead.
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- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thingwall to another place.
- 1933 April 1 — Abolished and incorporated into Birkenhead (377 acres, pop. 652 in 1931)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ273844 (Lat/Lon: 53.351468, -3.09363), Thingwall which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Wirral Rural District (1894-1928)
- Birkenhead County Borough (1928-33)