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Campsite Name | Town | Contact | ||
| Brooklyn Park and Country Club | Southport | 01704 228534 |  | |
| Hurlston Hall Country Caravan Park | Southport | 01704 841064 | | |
| Riverside Park | Southport | 01704 228886 | | |
| Willowbank Holiday Home and Touring Park | Southport | 01704 571566 | |
Where is Merseyside?
About Merseyside
Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. Merseyside is named after the River Mersey and comprises the conurbation by the Mersey estuary centred upon Liverpool. Merseyside was created as a metropolitan county in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972.
History of Merseyside
Merseyside was designated as a "Special Review" area in the Local Government Act 1958, and the Local Government Commission for England started a review of this area in 1962, based around the core county boroughs of Birkenhead/Bootle/Liverpool/Wallasey. Further areas, including Widnes and Runcorn, were added to the Special Review Area by Order in 1965. Draft proposals were published in 1965, but the Commission never completed its final proposals as it was abolished in 1966.
Instead, a Royal Commission had been set up to review English local government entirely, and its report (known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report) proposed a much wider Merseyside metropolitan area covering south-west Lancashire and north-west Cheshire, extending as far south as Chester and as far north as the River Ribble. This would have included four districts: Southport/Crosby, Liverpool/Bootle, St Helens/Widnes and Wirral/Chester.
In 1970 the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive (which operates under the Merseytravel brand) was set up, covering the Liverpool and Wirral conurbations, but excluding St Helens.
Merseyside was created on 1 April 1974 from areas previously part of the administrative counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the county boroughs of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Bootle, and St Helens. Following the creation of Merseyside, Merseytravel expanded to take in St. Helens and Southport.
Between 1974 and 1986 the county had a two tier system of local government with the five boroughs sharing power with the Merseyside County Council. However in 1986 the government of Margaret Thatcher abolished the county council along with all other metropolitan county councils, and so its boroughs are now effectively unitary authorities.
Merseyside however still exists legally, and as a ceremonial county.