Crosby (Merseyside)
Crosby is a suburb of Liverpool and is located in northwest England in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Metropolitan County of Merseyside on the north side of the mouth of the River Mersey . Crosby has around 52,000 residents.
history
The place name is of Norman origin and means "place of the cross"; Crosby is therefore, like the neighboring Formby , a foundation of the Vikings. Until the connection to the railway network in the 1840s, Crosby remained a rather insignificant parish. The town was also called Great Crosby to distinguish it from the neighboring village of Little Crosby, which was incorporated in 1932 and which has retained its rural character to this day. In 1937 Great Crosby merged with Waterloo and Seaforth and formed with these places the Borough Crosby within the county of Lancashire . In 1974 this borough became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton .
leisure
Crosby is a popular resort town with miles of beach and a marina on the banks of the Mersey. Crosby also has a larger area of forest (Ince Woods) and several parks.
traffic
Crosby is on the Liverpool to Southport railway line . The city is also part of the Liverpool public transport network. The M57 (Liverpool ring road) and M58 (to Wigan ) motorways start east of Crosby .
education
Crosby has two well-known independent schools: Merchant Taylors' School and St Mary's College. In addition, the Chesterfield High School, the Holy Family Catholic High School, the St. Michael's Church of England High School and the Sacred Heart Catholic College (formerly: Sacred Heart Catholic High School) should be mentioned. Crosby is also known as the seat of the Carnegie Library.
Sports
Crosby is home to Marine FC football club, which plays in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, and Waterloo RFC rugby club.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town:
- Bruce Ismay (1862–1937), owner of the White Star Line, Titanic survivor
- Herbert James Rowse (1887–1963), architect
- Robert Runcie (1921-2000), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Anne Robinson (* 1944), journalist, television presenter
- Ronnie Moran (1934-2017), English football player and coach
- Vincent Nichols (born 1945), Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
- Johnny Wheeler (1928-2019), football player
Other personalities:
- Gerald Gardner (1884–1964), occultist
- Kenny Everett (1944-1995), comedian
- Cherie Blair (* 1954), lawyer and wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair; grew up in Crosby
