What is "linacre"

Linacre may refer to:

• Billy Linacre (born 1924), English footballer
• Sir Gordon Linacre (1920–2015), Royal Air Force officer, afterwards journalist and press baron
• Harry Linacre (1880–1957), English footballer
• John Linacre (born 1955), English footballer
• Thomas Linacre (c.1460–1524), English humanist scholar
• Linacre College, postgraduate college of Oxford University
• Linacre, an area west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
• Linacre, the central area of Bootle (formerly known as Bootle-cum-Linacre), Merseyside, England

Linacre is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Bootle Parliamentary constituency that covers the area of the town of Bootle historically known as Linacre and which contains Bootle centre, the New Strand Shopping Centre, and Gladstone Dock. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 12,305.