Linacre (ward) explained

Linacre is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Bootle Parliamentary constituency that covers the area of the town of Bootle historically known as Linacre and which contains Bootle centre, the New Strand Shopping Centre, and Gladstone Dock. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 12,305.^[1]

Etymology

The name Linacre derives from Middle English līn ('flax') and aker ('field'), thus once denoting a place associated with a flax-field.^[2]

Election results

Elections of the 2010s

References

53.4512°N -2.9975°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ward population 2011. UKcensusdata.com. 2 June 2015.
2. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), III, p. 1592 [s.v. ''Linacre'']; .