An interesting name survives in the little hamlet of Thingwall, situated almost in the centre of the Wirral.

The Stanleys settled at Storeton in Wirral in the fourteenth century.

Two other men whose names are closely linked with the shipping of the Mersey will always be remembered by the people of Wirral.

The encroachment of the sea upon the Wirral shore has been very gradual, p. 65but regular, for many years.