What is "wirral"

Wirral may refer to:

• Wirral Peninsula, a peninsula in the northwest of England, between the rivers Dee and Mersey
• Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, occupying the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula
• Wirral (UK Parliament constituency), a one-seat county constituency between 1885 and 1983
• Hundred of Wirral, the ancient administrative area for The Wirral
• Wirral Rural District, a former local government area of The Wirral between 1894 and 1933
• Wirral Urban District, a former local government area of The Wirral between 1933 and 1974
• Wirral Metropolitan College, a college of Further Education on the Wirral Peninsula
• Wirral-Enniskillen

Wirral was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

The constituency was located on the Wirral Peninsula, historically part of Cheshire in North West England, and was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. From 1974, its territory was split between the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, part of the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston which remained part of Cheshire.

It was abolished for the 1983 general election, and was succeeded by the constituencies of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Wirral South and Wirral West.