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Birkdale is an area of Southport, within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, though historically in Lancashire, in the north-west of England. The area is located on the Irish Sea coast, approximately a mile away from the centre of Southport. From 1894 to 1912, Birkdale and the adjoining suburb/village of Ainsdale were administered by Birkdale Urban District Council before becoming part of the county borough of Southport. Until 1 April 1974, Birkdale lay in the traditional borders of the county of Lancashire. At the 2001 census, the local government ward called Birkdale had a population of 12,265. The population of the area at the 2011 Census is shown under Birkdale(Ward)(qv). Other parts of Birkdale are included in Dukes Ward-which contains a significant part of the village centre and the Royal Birkdale Golf Club,- Kew Ward and Ainsdale ward.
Birkdale also inspired the name for a new urban mixed use community twelve miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina in Huntersville, North Carolina called Birkdale Village.
Places named Birkdale include:
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Birkdale in Southport, Merseyside, England.
- Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, one of the rotating hosts of the Open Championship
- Birkdale, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland
- Birkdale, North Yorkshire, a dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, England
- Birkdale, Queensland in Australia
- Birkdale School, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Birkdale Village, near Huntersville, North Carolina, USA
Birkdale is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Southport Parliamentary constituency that covers the eastern part of the localities of Birkdale and Hillside in the town of Southport, England. The population as at the 2011 census was 13,161.