Bidston

Bidston
Village
St Oswald's Church
Bidston
Bidston shown within Merseyside
Population	15,216 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SJ284900
• London	181 mi (291 km) SE
Metropolitan borough	Wirral
Metropolitan county	Merseyside
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PRENTON
Postcode district	CH43
Dialling code	0151
ISO 3166 code	GB-WRL

Police	Merseyside
Fire	Merseyside
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Birkenhead
List of places UK England Merseyside 53°24′07″N 3°04′41″W / 53.402°N 3.078°W / 53.402; -3.078Coordinates: 53°24′07″N 3°04′41″W / 53.402°N 3.078°W / 53.402; -3.078

Bidston is a village, a parish and a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, in the county of Merseyside. The area is a mixture of the well-preserved Bidston Village, Bidston Hill, a modern housing estate, and the Bidston Moss nature reserve, industrial estate and retail park.

Administratively, it is also a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the geographical county of Cheshire. At the 2001 Census, the population of Bidston was 10,446, consisting of 4,725 males and 5,721 females. By the time of the 2011 Census the electoral ward was called Bidston and St. James (St James is part of Bidston and not a separate locality). This ward includes Beechwood to the south of Bidston and extends into much of Birkenhead to the east, including all of the south side of the Great Float. The total population of this ward at this Census was 15,216 of which 7,117 were males and 8,099 were female.

Bidston has been occupied since the Mesolithic era, evidenced by flints excavated during the 1990s.Neolithic and Roman artefacts have also been discovered in the vicinity of the village. The circular nature of the St Oswald's Church grounds indicate an early origin to the site. Bidston Hill contains a number of ancient rock carvings, including that of a Sun Goddess, thought to have been carved by the Norse-Irish around 1000 AD.

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