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Coordinates: 53°24′43″N 2°55′05″W / 53.412°N 2.918°W
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Population | 12,938 (2001 Census)[1] |
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OS grid reference | SJ390915 |
Metropolitan borough | Liverpool |
Metropolitan county | Merseyside |
Region | North West |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LIVERPOOL |
Postcode district | L13 |
Dialling code | 0151 |
Police | Merseyside |
Fire | Merseyside |
Ambulance | North West |
EU Parliament | North West England |
UK Parliament | Liverpool Wavertree |
List of places: UK • England • Merseyside |
Old Swan is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. It is located fairly centrally in the city, bordered by Stoneycroft, Broadgreen, Fairfield and Wavertree. At the 2001 Census, the population of Old Swan was 12,938 (5,999 males, 6,939 females).[1]
The area is named after one of two public houses at a main road junction, the other being the Red House.
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The A57 road passes through Kensington and Fairfield prior to running through Old Swan and then through Knotty Ash, towards Prescot and on to St Helens.
Housing in the district is mostly in densely-packed terraced houses, though there are exceptions. The popular Doric Park is tucked away behind rows of terraced houses. The Edge Lane retail park runs parallel to Old Swan.
In the area there is an NHS walk-in health centre, along with an emergency surgery.
There are also three dental surgeries on Derby Lane that deal with a mixture of NHS and private patients.
Old Swan has a varied collection of clothes and food shops situated along Prescot Road serving local residents. In addition, the area is also served by a large Tesco supermarket this has recently been joined by an Aldi facing it across St. Oswald Street. Further down Prescot Road, away from the city centre is a Sainsbury's supermarket. During 2011, Asda took over the Netto premises, and it is now a Asda Supermarket.
Fairly regular bus routes 8/9, 10/10A/10B and 139 connect Old Swan to Liverpool City Centre continuing along the Prescot Road to Huyton, Prescot and St Helens in east Merseyside. Old Swan has other bus links - routes 60, 61/61A, 62, 81/81A and 102, which do not serve Liverpool City Centre but provide important links to other areas of Liverpool including Aigburth, Aintree, Anfield, Bootle, Childwall, Clubmoor, Crosby, Croxteth, Fazakerley, Netherton, Norris Green, Orrell Park, Speke, Walton, Wavertree, West Derby and Woolton.
The Merseytram System (Line 2) was due to run through Old Swan but this has now been cancelled after funding from the British Government was denied.
The M62 motorway starts at the end of Broadgreen Road out of the city, and is the east gateway into the city via Edge Lane Drive.
The nearest railway stations to Old Swan are Broad Green railway station and Wavertree Technology Park railway station. Both are operated by Northern Rail and served by trains to and from Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western, Stalybridge via. Manchester Victoria and Warrington Bank Quay.
It contains six schools, including Broadgreen Primary School, St Anne's Stanley C of E Primary, St Oswald's Catholic Primary, Corinthian Avenue Primary, St Cuthbert Catholic Primary and Broadgreen International School (formerly known as Highfield and Broadgreen Community Comprehensive), which is a specialised sixth form and technology college. There are also three nurseries in the area. Old Swan offers a recently refurbished[2] library,[3] originally opened in 1913 as a reading room.
A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye (died 1859 or 1860), aka Feathers or Old Swan, was a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation with a reputation as a peacemaker. In 1822, HBC's Chesterfield House journal described Feathers as "much attached to the whites". Like his father, Feathers gained a reputation as a peacemaker.
After Old Swan's death in either late 1859 or early 1860, his position as chief was taken by Big Swan. This successor was described as "a man of colossal size and savage disposition, crafty and treacherous."
Old Swan is a Liverpool City Council Ward in the Liverpool Wavertree Parliamentary constituency. The boundary was changed for the 2004 Municipal elections losing a small area to the new Tuebrook and Stoneycroft ward and gaining part of the former Broadgreen ward.
Cllr Gary Millar defected from the Liberal Democrats to the Labour Party in April 2011
After the boundary change of 2004 the whole of Liverpool City Council faced election. Three Councillors were returned.
Italics indicate the sitting Councillor. Bold indicates the winning candidate.
Old Swan is a district of Liverpool, England.
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