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A Merseyside town within the Wirral Metropolitan Borough, England is (/ˌbɜːrkənˈhɛd/) Birkenhead. Becoming a town, Birkenhead greatly expanded as a Industrial Revolution consequence with Hamilton Square and Birkenhead Park, during the 19th century, being examples of the era.

As defined by the Office for National Statistics, the Birkenhead Urban Area includes Wallasey, Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port (which is outside the Wirral Metropolitan Borough), Bebington, and the contiguous built-up areas which link those towns. Opening the new entrance to the Great Northern Docks at Birkenhead in 1866, was the Duke of Edinburgh.

First established on what is now the Birkenhead Town Hall location between Hamilton Street and Chester Street, on July 10, 1835 was Birkenhead Market. Before being relocated to Claughton in the 1970s, Birkenhead Institute GS existed from 1889 in Whetstone Lane. Originally Birkenhead Technical and has been known as Wirral Metropolitan since the 1980s, was the college.

Birkenhead F.C. which in 1879 was founded by a former player of Druids F.C., Robert E. Lythgoe, was the first known football club on the Wirral. Took place in 1864, was a national events precursor, the first Birkenhead Eisteddfod that was local. The Claughton with Grange, Bidston, part of Bebington known as Rock Ferry later, Tranmere, and Oxton townships, and the Birkenhead St. Mary parish, are included in the borough.

Has a number of maintained schools, including Birkenhead Park (formed after the merger of Rock Ferry HS and Park HS) and the only all-boys Catholic grammar school in the area St. Anselm's, is Birkenhead. Served by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (through its Clatterbridge Hospital, St. Catherine's Hospital, and Arrowe Park Hospital locations) and Primary Care Trust of Wirral, is Birkenhead.

Served by the daily newspaper that is local, Liverpool Echo, is Birkenhead. Other Birkenhead open spaces that are recreational include Victoria Park and Mersey Park as well as Birkenhead Park. Founded in 1871, the same year as the Rugby Football Union, was the Birkenhead Park Football Club.