Noctorum
Coordinates: 53°22′48″N 3°04′31″W / 53.38°N 3.0753°W
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Noctorum shown within Merseyside |
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| Population | 4,990 (2001 Census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SJ285875 |
| Metropolitan borough | Metropolitan Borough of Wirral |
| Metropolitan county | Merseyside |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PRENTON |
| Postcode district | CH43 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Merseyside |
| Fire | Merseyside |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | Birkenhead |
| List of places: UK • England • Merseyside | |
Noctorum is a suburb of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. At the 2001 Census the population of Noctorum was 4,990 (2,360 males, 2,630 females).[1]
Ridgeway High School and the Discovery City Learning Centre (containing Ridgeway Library) is situated within this suburb. There is also a large council estate located here.
Upton railway station is the nearest station to Noctorum. It is located on the Borderlands Line between Bidston and Wrexham.
[edit] History
The name Noctorum is of Old Irish origin, originally Cnocc Tirim, meaning 'Dry Hill'.[2] This may be in reference to Bidston Hill,[citation needed] of which Noctorum is situated on its western slope. The name may long pre-date the Norse-Irish settlement in the early 10th century and go back to a Hibernian settlement of the west coast in the Sub-Roman period (early 5th century).[citation needed]
Noctorum appears as Chenoterie (Norman French) in the Domesday Book of 1086.[3] "Chêne" (French for oak) may be used here as in the Wirral hamlet of Landican (Old Welsh/Brythonic) called Landechene, the Oak Enclosure in the Norman French of the Doomsday Book.
Noctorum was a township of the parish of Woodchurch, in the Wirral Hundred. The population was 17 in 1801, 32 in 1851 and 212 in 1901.[4] It was added to Birkenhead civil parish in 1933 and part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the geographical county of Cheshire, until local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Wirral 2001 Census: Noctorum, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, http://www.wirral.gov.uk/factsandfigures/census2001/oneward2recset.asp?ref=TS28, retrieved 3 July 2007
- ^ What's in a Name?, icliverpool.co.uk, http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_headline=scandinavians-trace-their-viking-roots-------in-wirral&method=full&objectid=13103933&page=3&siteid=50061-name_page.html, retrieved 26 June 2007
- ^ Cheshire L-Z, The Domesday Book Online, http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/cheshire2.html, retrieved 16 January 2009
- ^ Cheshire Towns & Parishes: Noctorum, GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy, http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/noctorum.html, retrieved 1 May 2008
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