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Bebington
Coordinates: 53.350° N 3.003° W
Population	13,720 (Total), 6,509 (Male), 7,211 (Female)[1]
OS grid reference	SJ333841
Metropolitan borough	Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Metropolitan county	Merseyside
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WIRRAL
Postcode district	CH62, CH63
Dial code	0151 6**/0151 3**
Police	Merseyside
Fire	Merseyside
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Wirral South
European Parliament	North West England
List of places: UK • England • Merseyside

Bebington is a town in Merseyside, England. It is located on the eastern, River Mersey side of the Wirral Peninsula. The town includes the areas of Port Sunlight (an early planned factory town), Higher Bebington, Lower Bebington, Spital and Storeton. The Bebington ward had a population of 13,720 during the 2001 census.

Contents 1 History 2 Education 3 Notable people from Bebington 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

The Church of St. Andrew, on a site occupied since Saxon times, dates from the 14th and 16th centuries.

In 1838 the footprints of a dinosaur later called the Chirotherium Storetonese were found in a sandstone bed at Storeton Quarry. Examples can be seen at the Liverpool Museum and in Christ Church within the parish of Higher Bebington. Stone quarried at Bebington was used for the construction of Birkenhead Town Hall, some of the villas around Birkenhead and Rock Parks and most famously of all the Empire State Building. The stone is considered to be a high quality sandstone which is creamy in appearance. The Quarries were eventually filled in with debris removed during the construction of the two Mersey Tunnels.

The Oval Sports Centre was used in the film, Chariots of Fire, to portray the 1924 Colombes Olympic Stadium in Paris.

Bebington also has a claim to fame in that St. Andrews church yard features the lamp-post that was supposedly the real-life inspiration for the lamp-post in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles Of Narnia.

The Brackenwood golf course was cited in 2004 as a likely site for the Battle of Brunanburh in AD 937.^[2]

Mayer Hall, Bebington Village, was formerly an Art Gallery built by Joseph Mayer, a Liverpool Businessman - it is now a community resource and still boasts many of its original features.

Bebington contains five main schools; Wirral Grammar School for Boys, Wirral Grammar School for Girls, St. John Plessington Catholic College, Higher Bebington Junior School, Bebington High school.

• Lottie Dod (1871-1960), "the most versatile female athlete of all time" and five times Wimbledon tennis champion, was born in Bebington.

• The historian and antiquarian Hilda R. Ellis Davidson was born in Bebington in 1914.

• Harold Wilson (1916-1995), British Prime Minister, lived in the area from the age of 16 and was head boy at Wirral Grammar School.

• Entertainers to hail from the town include comedian Ted Robbins, singer Pete Burns (born 1959 in Port Sunlight) and Jan Ravens, impressionist and actress (born in Bebington)

• Kenneth Halliwell, partner and murderer of Joe Orton, was born in Heath Road, Bebington.

• Robert Davies, acclaimed industrialist and entrepreneur, born 26 August 1962 in Bebington, now residing in South Carolina USA.

• The authors Roger Lancelyn Green and Richard Lancelyn Green lived in Poulton Lancelyn, Bebington.

• Chris Malkin, former professional footballer, was born in Bebington.

• One of the greatest ever footballers of all time, Dixie Dean (1907-1980), lived in Higher Bebington.

• Bebington parliamentary constituency (1950 – Feb 1974)
• Bebington and Ellesmere Port parliamentary constituency (Feb 1974 – 1983)

• Bebington District Explorer Scouts
• Open Directory Project - Bebington category