Pensby | |
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Village | |
Shops on the B5138 Pensby Road, at the junction with Fishers Lane | |
Location within Merseyside | |
Population | 6,900 (2001 census) |
OS grid reference | SJ271829 |
• London | 178 mi (286 km)[1] SE |
Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | WIRRAL |
Postcode district | CH61 |
Dialling code | 0151 |
ISO 3166 code | GB-WRL |
Police | Merseyside |
Fire | Merseyside |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
Pensby (locally /ˈpɛnzbi/) is a large village on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside, England. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north of the town of Heswall and approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the south west of Thingwall. Historically within Cheshire, the area is part of the Pensby and Thingwall Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and is in the parliamentary constituency of Wirral West.
At the 2001 census the village of Pensby had 6,900 inhabitants.[2] The 2011 census measured the population of the Pensby and Thingwall ward at 13,007.[3]