Liscard, Cheshire

Description
Liscard, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Wallasey parish, Cheshire. The township lies on the Mersey, about half a mile from Egremont steam ferry station, and 2 miles N by W of Birkenhead, includes Egremont and New Brighton, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Liverpool. Acreage, 982, with 787 of adjacent tidal water and foreshore; population, 16,823. Liscard village is suburban to Birkenhead. The Wallasey Hospital for infectious diseases, the dispensary, and the cemetery are situated here. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1878. Population, 5679. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £400. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church was erected in 1877, and is in the Early English style. There are in the township Boman Catholic, Congregational, Reformed Episcopalian, Baptist, and Wesleyan chapels, and a meeting-house for the Society of Friends. EGREMONT and NEW BRIGHTON form separate ecclesiastical parishes in this township.