Eastham is the southernmost area of the Merseyside part of Wirral, lying within a Green Belt area bordering Merseyside and Cheshire, adjacent to the River Mersey. It is also close to the city of Chester and shares a proximity to the village of Port Sunlight, a historic centre for the British soap industry. The town comprises the original village of Eastham and modern pleasant private housing areas. These include Brookhurst (which borders Willaston and Raby Mere) and Chapel View, a development of new housing near Eastham Ferry.

Eastham is so-called because it was originally a hamlet East of the larger settlement of Bromborough.

The original village (inhabited since Saxon times) is clustered around St. Mary's church, whose churchyard contains an ancient yew. Much of the surrounding land was once owned by the powerful Stanley family. In the Victorian era a ferry brought visitors from Liverpool to the pleasure gardens, remnants of which can be seen in Eastham Country Park. Eastham Lock forms the western end of the Manchester Ship Canal. In the 1930s, significant housing development joined Eastham to neighbouring Bromborough leaving the Mersey side of the Wirral continuously built up to New Brighton.

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Eastham Library

Eastham In The Doomsday Book

Eastham Old Photographs

Eastham Golf Info