| Beechwood | |
|---|---|
 Part of the housing estate, with Bidston Hill in the background. | |
  Beechwood Location within Merseyside | |
| OS grid reference | SJ279893 |
| • London | 181 mi (291 km)[1] SE |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PRENTON |
| Postcode district | CH43 |
| Dialling code | 0151 6** |
| ISO 3166 code | GB-WRL |
| Police | Merseyside |
| Fire | Merseyside |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Beechwood is a housing estate in the west of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside, England. Administratively it is within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral as part of Bidston and St James Ward. The area is bounded by Bidston to the north, Upton to the west and Noctorum to the south. The elevation of Bidston Hill is immediately to the east.
The estate was built in the 1960s as the Ford Estate and completed in the mid to late 1970s, to house people moving from the North End of Birkenhead and providing a better standard of living.[2]
Most of Beechwood is former council property, bought from Wirral Borough Council by local tenants who formed a community housing association. Some of the council houses have been sold under the Right to Buy scheme. The estate is the most northerly of three housing estates within a mile of each other, the other two being at Woodchurch and Noctorum. The estate is now separated into three sections, these being Upper Bidston Village,[3][4] Beechwood and Greenfields.[5] In recent years the estate has seen significant redevelopment of the former wooded area at 6th Avenue and through the demolition of maisonettes, tower blocks, Manor County Middle School and residential care homes (Feltree House and Esher House), with the construction of new affordable homes by private investors.
At the 2011 census no population figures specific to Beechwood were available. However the total population of Bidston and St James Ward, which includes the estate, was 15,216.[6]
- ^ "Coordinate Distance Calculator". boulter.com. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "Community". Beechwood Chapel. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ^ "Upper Bidston Village sign on Fender Way at the northern end of Beechwood". Commons. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Fender Way, Birkenhead, England". Google Maps (Street View). Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Greenfields sign on Fender Way, Beechwood". Commons. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Bidston and St James Ward (E05000955)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 August 2020.