Town in England
Whiston is a township and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. previously recorded within the historic county of Lancashire, it is located eight miles ( ten kilometres ) east of Liverpool. The population was 13,629 at the 2001 Census, [ 1 ] increasing to 14,263 at the 2011 Census. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A new village, Halsnead Garden Village, was approved with government support in 2017 and will be located in the Halsnead sphere of the town. [ 4 ] The raw village will contain over 1,500 houses, a elementary school, a state park, and versatile community and leisure facilities. structure is estimated to cost around £270 million. [ 5 ]

history [edit ]

The first base record of Whiston comes in 1245, being rendered as “ Quistan ” and being within the West Derby Hundred in Lancashire. [ 6 ] archaeological tell such as a neolithic polished hand-axe and mesolithic age tool fragments suggest that the region was host to pre-historic colony up to 12,000 years, ago while other archaeological finds include remnants of a Roman tile workshop in nearby Tarbock and a medieval shovel head. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The independent industry of Whistons early documented history is agriculture, with the first recorded mill in the area being held by local lord Henry Travers from 1190. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] By 1521, the first documentation of coal mining is made, which would in time become Whiston ‘s primary industry. [ 11 ] [ 14 ] By 1700, the coalfields of Whiston, Prescot, and Sutton were producing 25,000-50,000 tonnes of coal per annum, and this would alone increase as the Industrial Revolution progressed and the Whiston area became host to tens of collieries over the 18th and 19th Centuries. [ 15 ] The church service of St. Nicholas on Windy Arbor Road was consecrated on 30 July 1868. It hosts a war memorial, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, which was struck by lightning in 1928. The memorial was replaced in 1932. [ 16 ] Whiston was previously host to Halsnead Hall, a neoclassic manor that housed the Willis family, chief landholders in Whiston from 1684 until the auction of their estate of the realm in 1929. [ 11 ] Halsnead Hall, demolished in 1932 and now the site of Halsnead electrostatic van park, was designed by the celebrated architect Sir John Soane. [ 17 ] Before its destruction, it was the lone case of Soane ‘s work in either Lancashire or Cheshire. [ 17 ]

government [edit ]

anterior to limit changes in 2016, [ 18 ] Whiston consisted of the Whiston North and Whiston South wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley. The North and South wards were separated by the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, which runs directly through the town. The early borough wards of North and South are inactive used in the form of Town Council wards, [ 19 ] but for the purposes of Borough theatrical performance, Whiston elects three councillors via the combine guard of Whiston and Cronton. [ 20 ] Whiston lent its diagnose to and was once the headquarters of the Whiston Rural District within the County of Lancashire before the local Government Act 1972. today, Whiston Town Council oversees parish charge administration .

enchant [edit ]

Whiston is crossed by the historic Liverpool to Manchester Railway, and is served by Whiston railway station with services to Liverpool and Manchester, operated by Northern. Local bus routes to Runcorn, Liverpool, St Helens and Huyton besides serve the township. These are operated by, among early smaller local providers, Stagecoach and Arriva.

Health [edit ]

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust operates Whiston Hospital. The hospital supports the elementary motherhood department for the Knowsley and St Helens boroughs, alongside a regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit serving North West England, North Wales and the Isle of Man. [ 21 ] The Trust is a extremity arrangement of the teaching hospital system partnered with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Edge Hill University .

Industries [edit ]

local industry includes Glen Dimplex Home Appliances, producing kitchen appliances and employing approximately 1,000 people .

education [edit ]

primary education [edit ]

  • St Luke’s Catholic Primary School
  • Halsnead Primary School
  • Whiston Willis Primary School
  • St Leo’s & Southmead Catholic Primary School

secondary education [edit ]

In 2010, two of Whiston ‘s secondary schools were closed and redeveloped under the Labour Party governments ‘Building Schools for the Future ‘ scheme. This £150 million program created seven new ‘Centres for Learning ‘ to replace the ten existing secondary schools within the Knowsley borough. [ 22 ]

  • Knowsley Higher Side Comprehensive School, Cumber Lane.

Constructed in 1964, Knowsley Higher Side Comprehensive School was one of the first comprehensive schools in the local anesthetic sphere, purpose built under the Labour Party ‘s department of education reforms to formally abolish the tripartite system of education ; to amalgamate grammar, technical and secondary modern schools into one appropriately named Comprehensive System. In March 2010, after serving the local area for 46 years, Higher Side Comprehensive School was permanently closed and subsequently demolished to make way for the new St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Centre for Learning which was constructed on vacant land behind Higher Side ‘s main buildings. The land on which Higher Side once stood now serves as a car park and recreational area for staff and pupils of the new St Edmund Arrowsmith. The only remaining build of the erstwhile Higher Side School locate is the early Whiston & Prescot City Learning Centre ( CLC ), nowadays St Edmund Arrowsmith Science Hub. The construction was originally constructed and opened in 2000. Pupils of the school who were however enrolled at Higher side at the fourth dimension its blockage were transferred to its substitution Knowsley Park Centre for Learning ( now The Prescot School ) based on Knowsley Park Lane, Prescot .
Closed, relocated and rebuilt behind the former Knowsley Higher Side Comprehensive School on Cumber Lane. Renamed as ‘St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Centre for Learning ‘ for a while. The original St Edmund Arrowsmith Building on Scotchbarn Lane was retained for several years and redeveloped as a youth trail academy, but has besides since been demolished .

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