Huyton
Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ N , 2 ° 50 ′ W
Huyton (also: Huyton-with-Roby) is a district belonging to the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley , which borders Liverpool to the east. Huyton is about 10 km east of Liverpool city center on the road to St Helens and administratively belongs to Merseyside . The area borders Liverpool to the west, the M62 Liverpool- Manchester motorway runs to the south , while the M57, which serves as Liverpool's eastern motorway ring, marks the border to the north and east. Around 55,000 people live in Huyton.
history
Huyton, mentioned as Hitune in the Domesday Book , was a rural area in Lancashire until the mid-20th century . During the Second World War there was an internment camp for " Enemy Alien " - among others the later GDR cultural politician Kurt Hager , the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner and the writer Kurt Barthel were imprisoned here. Later this camp served as a prisoner of war camp. In the 1950s and 1960s, residential areas for commuters who worked in Liverpool were built here; the city center still bears the name the village , which reminds of the village past. In 1974 Huyton was spun off from Lancashire as part of an administrative reform and struck to Merseyside .
Infrastructure
Huyton has a train station on the Liverpool-Manchester line, the world's oldest public railway line. There is also a college in Huyton, Knowsley Community College, as well as 4 high schools and 17 elementary schools. There is a large Walmart shopping mall in the center of the district .
Latest story
Huyton hit the headlines in 2005 for the murder of Black Anthony Walker by white racists.
Personalities
- Rex Harrison (1908–1990), actor, born in Huyton
- John McCabe (1939–2015), composer, born in Huyton
- Brian Labone (1940-2006), soccer player, died in Huyton
- Freddie Starr (1943–2019), comedian, born in Huyton
- Alan Bleasdale (born 1946), television drama writer
- Phil Redmond (born 1949), television producer
- Peter Reid (* 1956), soccer player, born in Huyton
- Lee Mavers (* 1962), singer with The La's, lives in Huyton
- Lee Trundle (born 1976), football player
- Steven Gerrard (* 1980), soccer player, grew up in Huyton
- Tony Hibbert (* 1981), soccer player
- Joey Barton (born 1982), soccer player
- David Nugent (born 1985), football player
