Hoylake is a seaside town in the

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, England. It is at the north west of the

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, near

West Kirby West Kirby is a resort town on the north-west corner of the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England, at the mouth of the River Dee. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, to the north-east lies Hoylake, to the east Grange ...

and where the River Dee meets the

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. Historically part of Cheshire, the

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of 1086 recorded it within the

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of Wilaveston. At the 2001 census, the population of Hoylake was 5,710 of a total population of 13,042, as part of the Hoylake and Meols local government

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. By the time of the 2011 census specific population figures for Hoylake were no longer maintained. The total population for the Hoylake and Meols Ward at this census was 13,348.

History

In 1690, William III set sail from Hoylake, then known as ''Hyle'' or ''High-lake'', with a 10,000-strong army to

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, where his army was to take part in the

Battle of the Boyne The Battle of the Boyne ( ga, Cath na Bóinne ) was a battle in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II of England and Ireland, VII of Scotland, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and J ...

. The location of departure remains known as King's Gap. The previous year a large force under Marshal Schomberg had also departed from Hoylake on 12 August, crossing to Ireland to capture Carrickfergus. The present day township grew up in the nineteenth century around the small

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village of Hoose, the name of which means "hollows". The 1848 ''Topographical Dictionary of England'' described the inhabitants of Hoose as: The name Hoylake was derived from Hoyle Lake, a channel of water between

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and Dove Point. Protected by a wide sandbank known as Hoyle Bank and with a water depth of about 20 feet, it provided a safe

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age for ships too large to sail up the Dee to Chester.

Civic history

The township of Hoose was part of the

Parish of the

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. It existed as a

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between 1866 and 1894 when it was merged into Hoylake and West Kirby civil parish. Between 1894 and 1974 Hoylake was governed by its own

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. On 1 April 1974, local government reorganisation in England and Wales resulted in most of the Wirral Peninsula, including Hoylake, transfer from the county of Cheshire to the nascent county of Merseyside. The population of the town over time was measured at 60 in 1801, 589 in 1851 and 2,701 in 1901. The total population of the Hoylake Urban District (which included West Kirby) was recorded as 19,745 in 1931.

Landmarks

The Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial is a notable local landmark, as it was designed in 1922 by the British sculptor

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who was responsible for a number of war memorials around the world, including the

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. The former Town Hall, on the corner of Albert Road and Market Street, is due to be converted to a new arts centre, known as The Beacon, with craft workshops, restaurant, and flats above. Kings Gap roundabout is home to a sculpture by Scottish sculptor David Annand. Called 'Knots', it consists of seabirds looping around four poles. It was commissioned by the council as part of the regeneration of Hoylake and was installed in June 2006 in time for the

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Lighthouses

To facilitate safe access into the Hoylake anchorage, two lighthouses were constructed in 1763, at the initiative of William Hutchinson. The lower light was a wooden structure that could be moved according to differing tides and shifting sands to remain aligned to the upper light, which was a permanent brick building. By the start of the 19th century each lighthouse was equipped with a single 3 ft-diameter reflector, built to Hutchinson's design. Both of these structures were rebuilt a century later, and in 1865 new lenses (a pair of fourth-order fixed

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) were designed and manufactured for the two towers by

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. The upper lighthouse, consisting of an octagonal brick tower, last shone on 14 May 1886 and is now part of a private residence in Valentia Road. The building was given Grade II listed status in 1988. The lower lighthouse, closer to the shore in Alderley Road, was deactivated in 1908 and demolished in 1922.

Former landmarks

The Royal Hotel was built by Sir John Stanley in 1792, with the intention of developing the area as a holiday resort. The numerous steam packet vessels

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between Liverpool and

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which called at the hotel provided valuable patronage. By the mid-19th century a

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was laid out in the grounds of the hotel. The hotel building was demolished in the 1950s. Hoylake's

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, located on the

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, was opened in June 1913 and rebuilt in the late 1920s. In 1976, the Hoylake Pool and Community Trust took over the running of the facility from Wirral Borough Council. The baths finally closed in 1981.

Geography

Hoylake is at the north-western corner of the Wirral Peninsula, and is situated on the eastern side of the mouth of the

Dee Estuary The Dee Estuary ( cy, Aber Dyfrdwy) is a large estuary by means of which the River Dee flows into Liverpool Bay. The estuary starts near Shotton after a five-mile (8 km) 'canalised' section and the river soon swells to be several miles ...

and adjacent to the

. Hoylake is approximately west-south-west of the

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at New Brighton. The centre of Hoylake is situated at an elevation of about above sea level. To the west of the town at Hilbre Point is

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, a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. The area is an exposed

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outcrop consisting of sand dunes,

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and

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Governance

Hoylake is within the parliamentary constituency of

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. The current Member of Parliament is

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, a Labour representative. At

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level, the town is incorporated into the Hoylake and Meols

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of the

, in the metropolitan county of Merseyside. It is represented on

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by three councillors. The most recent local elections took place on 6 May 2021.

Community

Hoylake is a largely residential area and there is an active nightlife in the town centre, which is located at the original village of Hoose. The town supports a permanent

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station, manned by the RNLI. Initially founded in 1803 by the

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, it is one of the oldest in the country. In 2008, the RNLI began to raise £2 million for a new lifeboat station and new generation all-weather lifeboat, to facilitate a faster response time to emergencies and rescues in the Irish Sea and the rivers Dee and Mersey. The building was opened in November 2009. The Kings Gap conservation area has been designated by Wirral Borough Council. Bounded by the coastline and the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, it consists of large nineteenth and early twentieth century houses, Hoylake Lighthouse and St Hildeburgh's Church.

Education

Hoylake includes the independent Kingsmead School, which educates girls and boys from 2 to 16 years old. Hoylake Holy Trinity C of E Primary School is the town's main primary school, educating children from the ages of 3 to 11.

Sport

Golf

Hoylake is the home of the

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, built in 1869 on the site of the Royal Hotel racecourse. It is the second oldest golf links in England, predated only by the Royal North Devon Golf Club, in

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. It has hosted many major tournaments such as

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and the

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. The club is often referred to as "Hoylake". It hosted the Open again in July 2006, after a gap of almost 40 years, with

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earning the

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for the second year in a row. The

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is the most recent of the event to be held at Hoylake. This was won by Rory McIlroy. The Open is due to return to the course for the 13th time in 2023. Hoylake-born amateur golfer John Ball Jnr. won the Open in 1890, becoming the first Englishman to do so. Another local amateur,

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became Open champion two years later. He won again in 1897 at his home club of Royal Liverpool. On the other side of Meols Drive and the railway is Hoylake Municipal Golf course which is used by Hoylake Golf Club (since 1933), West Hoyle GC and Irby GC. It was used as the

practice course.

Rugby Union

Hoylake RFC rugby club was founded in 1922. They currently play in South Lancs/Cheshire Division One, the seventh tier of English rugby. Its predecessor, connected with the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, had been founded in the 1890s. British Open golf champion Harold Hilton was also captain of the rugby team for the 1890–91 season.

Swimming

Hoylake ASC was founded in 1931. The club now trains at the

Concourse and the Calday Grange Swimming Pool.

Sailing

Hoylake Sailing Club was founded in 1887 and has a clubhouse and boatyard on North Parade. The club hosts an annual regatta and sends a team to the Southport 24 Hour Race.

Sand yachting

Hoylake is one of the premier sites for sand yachting in Britain, with banks around a quarter of a mile offshore. The town's beach was the venue for the European Sand Yacht Championships in 2007 and 2011 and hosted the 2017 event with Laytown & Bettystown, County Meath.

Cricket

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was played at the now disused Ellerman Lines Cricket Ground from as early as the 1920s, when the then newly formed West Wirral Cricket Club played at the ground. It was later sold to

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, who transformed the site into their social club. Cheshire played

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cricket there from 1957 to 1968. The ground also held Cheshire's first ever appearance in

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against Surrey in the first round of the

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. The ground was later sold, with the site becoming a nightclub, before being demolished following a fire. In 2011 the site of the ground was selected for construction of 62 affordable homes. Planning permission for this, and a revised plan for 26 properties, were refused. In 2020 a further planning proposal was submitted for 30 semi-detached bungalows and up to 61 assisted living retirement apartments.

Transport

Hoylake and Manor Road railway stations serve the town. Both are on the

branch of Merseyrail's

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Notable people

*Joshua Armitage, pen-name "Ionicus" (1913–1998), the "Punch" artist and designer of covers for Penguin's editions of P.G. Wodehouse, was born in Hoylake and lived and worked there his whole life. *

Julian Budden Julian Medforth Budden (9 April 1924 in Hoylake, Wirral – 28 February 2007 in Florence, Italy) was a British opera scholar, radio producer and broadcaster. He is particularly known for his three volumes on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi (publishe ...

, Italian opera scholar and BBC radio producer (1924–2007) was born in Hoylake. *The former

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cyclist

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(1968- ) was born in Hoylake. *Actor

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(1968- ) grew up in Hoylake. * Lieutenant Colonel Jack Armand Cunningham (1890–1966), the World War I

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, retired to Hoylake and eventually died there. *Author Helen Forrester (1919-2011) was born in the town. *Pianist

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(1961- ) grew up in Hoylake. *Pianist Stephen Coombs (1960- ) grew up in Hoylake. *The former actress and Labour MP

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(1936- ) grew up in Hoylake. *

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's first wife

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grew up in Hoylake and returned there after their divorce in 1968. Their son Julian (1963- ) spent much of his early life in Hoylake. *Comedian

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won a local amateur talent contest, held at Hoylake's Kingsway Cinema in 1940. *

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(1950- ) of Genesis was a boarder at the Leas School, formerly on Meols Drive. * Curtis Warren (1963- ), Merseyside gangster, formerly featured in the Sunday Times Rich List, owned a house on Meols Drive. *

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(1949- ), bassist of AC/DC grew up in Hoylake. *Indie rock bands

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and the Little Flames are from Hoylake. * James Skelly, Ian Skelly, Bill Ryder-Jones, Nick Power, Lee Southall, Paul Duffy and John Duffy, from the band

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, were also brought up there.

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References

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