Tranmere | |
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Looking from Mersey Park to Agnes Road and towards Victoria Park | |
Location within Merseyside | |
Population | 11,668 (2001 Census)[1] |
OS grid reference | SJ300850 |
• London | 178 mi (286 km)[2] SE |
Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | BIRKENHEAD |
Postcode district | CH41 |
Dialling code | 0151 |
ISO 3166 code | GB-WRL |
Police | Merseyside |
Fire | Merseyside |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
Tranmere is a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Administratively, it is within the Birkenhead and Tranmere Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the county of Cheshire.
At the 2001 census, the population of Tranmere was 11,668.[3] By the 2011 census the suburb was combined with the centre of Birkenhead. The population was recorded as 15,879.[4][5]