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Wirral or the Wirral () is a peninsula in Merseyside and Cheshire, North West England. It is bounded to the west by the River Dee, forming a boundary with Wales, to the east by the River Mersey and to the north by the Irish Sea. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about long and wide. Historically, the Wirral was wholly within Cheshire; in the Domesday Book, its border with the rest of the county was placed at "two arrow falls from Chester city walls". However, since the passing of the Local Government Act 1972, only the southern third has been in Cheshire, with the rest a metropolitan borough in the new county of Merseyside. The area also forms part of the Liverpool City Region. The Wirral contains both affluent and deprived areas. The more prosperous areas are largely located on the west and south of the peninsula, while the poorer and more heavily urbanised areas are concentrated to the north-east, around the built-up district of Birkenhead. == Origin of the name == The name Wirral literally means "myrtle corner", from the Old English ''wir'', a myrtle tree, and ''heal'', an angle, corner or slope. It is supposed that the land was once overgrown with bog myrtle, a plant no longer found in the area, but plentiful around Formby, to which the Wirral would once have had a similar habitat. The name was given to the Hundred of Wirral (or Wilaveston) around the 8th century. Whether the name should be preceded by the definite article is the subject of debate, though in 2014, an online poll of ''Liverpool Echo'' readers indicated that 73% of respondents would use the phrase "on the Wirral" in everyday conversation, as opposed to "in the Wirral" or "in Wirral". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wirral Peninsula」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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