Wallasey

Residential town in the metropolitan county of Merseyside, northwest England, on the northeast extremity of the Wirral peninsula, at the mouth of the River Mersey; population (2001) 15,300. Since the 1820s there have been ferries from here to Liverpool across the Mersey, with railway services through the Mersey tunnel from 1885, and road tunnels from 1934.

Wallasey derives its name from an old village within which several districts developed, including Egremont, Seacombe, Liscard, and New Brighton. Mainly residential, these centres grew and joined together as suburbs for Liverpool and Birkenhead.