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Bowring Park is a public park in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, near Liverpool, England. It is the oldest public park in Knowsley and includes the first municipal golf course in England (established 1913). It was opened in 1907 and was a gift of Liverpool's first Lord Mayor William Benjamin Bowring (later first baronet) in 1906 of the Roby Hall Estate. He was the senior partner in a shipping firm. His wife Isabel Maclean Bowring (née Jarvis) of Saint John, New Brunswick, was sympathetic to the suffering and needy among the poor of Liverpool. Originally 100 acres (0.40 km2) in size, it lost some to the M62 motorway.
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Roby railway station
Roby railway station serves the village of Roby, Merseyside, England. It is located 5 miles (8 km) east of Liverpool Lime Street on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and 1⁄2 mile (800 m) west of Huyton. It is operated by Northern Trains, as part of Merseytravel's electrified City Line to Manchester and Wigan North Western.
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Bowring Park, Merseyside
Bowring Park is a small suburb of Liverpool in the borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.
It lies between the Childwall and Roby districts and is adjacent to the M62 motorway.
Court Hey Park (home of the National Wildflower Centre between 2001 and 2017) is in the Bowring Park area. Bowring Park Golf Course is split in two by the motorway.
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Page Moss
Page Moss is an area in the borough of Knowsley, Merseyside. It borders the city of Liverpool to the east. Previously known as "The Horns" due to the crime and previous people using guns naming them horns. The population of the Knowsley ward taken at the 2011 census was 7,076.
The A57/Liverpool Road which passes through Page Moss was historically an early turnpike, toll houses were installed during the 1700s on what later became well known public houses in the area such as "The Eagle and Child" and "The Bluebell Inn". Markers were placed at mile intervals along the toll road and an original still stands to this day alongside the eastbound side of Liverpool Road opposite the junction with Lyme Cross Road, previously a mile marker would be situated on the corner of Twig Lane but this has been missing since at least the 1930s when the Page Moss estate was constructed for housing.
On 30 June 2008 the neighbourhood was featured on the BBC TV documentary series Panorama, focusing upon the local youth gang culture, namely the "Moss Edz" and their feuds with adjoining areas, specifically Dovecot, whom they refer to as "Dovey Edz". The two areas are less than a mile apart.
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Roby, Merseyside
Roby is a village and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. Part of the wider built-up-area of Huyton-with-Roby with Huyton, Roby is effectively a dormitory village or suburb of the adjacent City of Liverpool. At the 2021 Census, the population of Roby electoral ward was 9,353.
Historically in Lancashire, Roby was part of the hundred of West Derby, an ancient subdivision of Lancashire covering the south-west of the county, as a broadly rural village and township within the Parish of Huyton. In the 1890's Roby became part of the wider Huyton with Roby Urban District & civil parish.
Growing industrialisation of the region during the industrial revolution brought the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Roby at the Roby railway station in 1830.