| Roby | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
.JPG) St. Bartholomew's Church, Roby | |
  Roby Location within Merseyside | |
| Population | 7,254 (2011 Census) |
| OS grid reference | SJ435905 |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LIVERPOOL |
| Postcode district | L14,L16,L36 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Merseyside |
| Fire | Merseyside |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Roby is a village and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. Part of the wider built-up-area of Huyton-with-Roby with Huyton, Roby is effectively a dormitory village or suburb of the adjacent City of Liverpool. At the 2021 Census, the population of Roby electoral ward was 9,353.[1]
Historically in Lancashire, Roby was part of the hundred of West Derby, an ancient subdivision of Lancashire covering the south-west of the county, as a broadly rural village and township within the Parish of Huyton. In the 1890's Roby became part of the wider Huyton with Roby Urban District & civil parish.[2][3]
Growing industrialisation of the region during the industrial revolution brought brought the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Roby at the Roby railway station in 1830.
- ^ "Roby". Census Data 2021. 21 March 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
- ^ Huyton with Roby parish boundaries, A Vision of Britain, archived from the original on 1 October 2007, retrieved 8 November 2006
- ^ Huyton with Roby UD unit history, A Vision of Britain, archived from the original on 30 September 2007, retrieved 8 November 2006