MOSSLEY HILL

'Mossley Hill' is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city, bordered by Aigburth, Wavertree, Childwall and Allerton.

Contents

History

Description

Attractions

Transport

Churches

Notable residents

References

External links

History

The area was made famous in the 1960s thanks to the The Beatles' hit "Penny Lane", named after a suburban street located within Mossley Hill. At the 2001 census, Mossley Hill, Liverpool District had a population which was recorded at 12,650. ^[2]

Description

The area is mostly residential with a few local businesses scattered around the district. Housing is mainly semi-detached, with occasional detached and some pleasant terraced streets. The area around Sefton Park has many large and impressive Victorian villas; Mossley Hill is well-known for containing some of the most superb Victorian architecture in Liverpool. One of the best north-west schools, Liverpool College, is located within the area.
Penny Lane, made famous by The Beatles, is in Mossley Hill, running between Allerton Road and Greenbank Road. It is an attraction for tourists and locals alike. There are two public houses on Penny Lane: the Dovedale Towers and the Penny Lane Wine Bar. Two famous Liverpool parks, Sefton Park and Greenbank Park, are located in Mossley Hill.
The Dovedale Towers pub (recently renamed the "Alma de Santiago") stands on the corner of Dovedale Road, where Dovedale Junior School is located. This was the school of famous Liverpudlians Jimmy Tarbuck, John Lennon, George Harrison, Peter Sissons and John Power. Calderstones School (which Lennon attended in it's previous incarnation, Quarry Bank) is located on nearby Harthill Road. It is now a science specialist college. In turn, this is located near the city's police horse training centre, just north of Mossley Hill's main residential area.
The Mossley Hill area is on one of the routes of the Magical Mystery Tour bus, named after one of the Beatles albums. Every year, millions of tourists come to see this area. It is important to both Beatles fans and locals.
The area is also home to the Greenbank Halls of Residence and Carnatic Halls of Residence student accommodation complexes (belonging to the University of Liverpool). Greenbank Halls include Derby and Rathbone Hall and Roscoe and Gladstone Hall: commonly known as D&R; and R&G respectively. Carnatic Halls is the largest of the University of Liverpool accommodation complexes including 6 halls: Morton House, Lady Mountford House, Dale Hall, McNair Hall, Salisbury Hall and Rankin Hall.
Mossley Hill has the postcode 'L18'.

Attractions

★ The area of Rose Lane and Allerton Road contains a large number of wine bars, bistros and restaurants.

★ Greenbank House

★ Greenbank Park

★ Liverpool College

★ Penny Lane

★ Sefton Park

★ Sudley Art Gallery, with famous paintings by Turner.

Transport

★ Mossley Hill railway station offers regular services to Liverpool city centre, Warrington, Manchester and you can also get to Birmingham via Liverpool South Parkway.

★ Buses outside the station to Liverpool City Centre or Speke & Liverpool John Lennon Airport (80,80A), Aigburth or Bootle (61), Sefton Park or Belle Vale (173) and also the Royal Liverpool Hospital or Speke (201).

★ Buses from Penny Lane (although the first lot go to Penny Lane as well): 62 to Crosby, 86 & 86A from the city centre to Garston and the airport, 74,75 & 76 from the city centre to Halewood, 68 from Aigburth to Bootle and 174 from Sefton Park to Belle Vale.

Churches

Most of the Christian churches in Mossley Hill are members of "Churches Together in Mossley Hill", a covenanted group of churches. This group was known as "The Nine Churches of Mossley Hill" until it reformed with one new member under the new membership covenant in 1994.
The original nine member churches comprised three Anglican parishes: St Matthew and St James, St Barnabas and All Hallows, Allerton; two Roman Catholic parishes: Our Lady, Bishop Eton and St Anthony of Padua, and four Free Churches: Dovedale Baptist, Allerton United Reformed, Elm Hall Drive Methodist and Bethel Presbyterian Church of Wales. The tenth church was Dove Community Church, which ceased to exist in 2006 and at the same time was replaced in membership of Churches Together by Wavertree Christian Fellowship.
There is at least one more church in Mossley Hill not in membership of Churches Together: Ramilies Road Chapel. There is also a mosque within the area, the Islamic Institute on Cramond Avenue.

Notable residents

★ J. Bruce Ismay

★ Rathbone family

★ Freddie Mercury lived in the pub Dovedale Towers for a short period (he was known as Freddie Bulsara at the time).^[3]

★ A number of current and past Liverpool and Everton Football Players live in the area.

References

1. National Statistics 2001 Census: Mossley Hill Retrieved 17 August 2007
2.
3. Hodkinson, M: "Queen The Early Years", page 117. Omnibus Press, 1995.

External links

★ 2006 Council Ward profile