Knotty Ash

Coordinates: 53°24′47″N 2°53′24″W / 53.413°N 2.890°W / 53.413; -2.890

Knotty Ash is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward, it was historically within the county of Lancashire. The population at the 2001 Census was 13,200, increasing to 13,312 at the 2011 Census.

Description

Knotty Ash is a small area on the eastern fringe of Liverpool and neighbours the West Derby, Old Swan, Broadgreen, Dovecot and Huyton districts. Its name is derived from a gnarled ash tree which formerly stood near the present-day Knotty Ash public house.

In the 1960s it was made famous in the United Kingdom by stand-up comedian and local resident Ken Dodd, as the home of the dwarfish comic characters he called the Diddy Men. In his BBC children's television programme Ken Dodd And The Diddymen (1969), the fictitious Diddyland, boasting the highest sunshine rate in the world, was situated in the centre of Knotty Ash. The Diddy Men worked in the local "Jam Butty Mines". In 2004, Mr Dodd planted a new ash tree close to the site of the original.

Knotty Ash (ward)

Knotty Ash is a Liverpool City Council Ward in the Liverpool West Derby Parliamentary constituency. It was formed for the 2004 Municipal elections from the former Broadgreen ward taking small parts from Childwall, Croxteth and Dovecot.

Councillors

The ward has returned eight councillors.

Election results

Elections of the 2010s

In September 2012, Jacqui Nasuh resigned from the council. A by-election was held on 15 November 2012 (the same date as the elections for the first Police and Crime Commissioner).

Elections of the 2000s

After the boundary change of 2004 the whole of Liverpool City Council faced election. Three Councillors were returned.

Italics - Denotes sitting Councillor.
Bold - Denotes the winning candidate.

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Coordinates: 53°25′01″N 2°53′22″W / 53.41705°N 2.88949°W / 53.41705; -2.88949