Stockbridge Village

Coordinates: 53°26′09″N 2°51′39″W / 53.4357°N 2.8609°W / 53.4357; -2.8609

Stockbridge Village is a settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 6,018. It was the subject of an article in a special report by The Economist entitled "A new kind of ghetto", which described it a predominantly White area of high unemployment and low aspirations.

History

The district was built in the 1960s as Cantril Farm to rehouse some 15,000 people from inner-city slum clearances, and consisted of mainly council-owned properties which included several high-rise blocks of flats. It was part of a deal to rehouse some 200,000 people from inner-city Liverpool in new residential areas beyond the city's borders, with other families from inner-city Liverpool moving to other overspill places like Leasowe, Huyton, Kirkby, Halewood, Skelmersdale and later, Runcorn New Town.

The land on which Cantril Farm would be built was purchased by Liverpool council in 1961 for a sum of £132,500.