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Storeton
Storeton is a small village and former civil parish in the Wirral district, in the county of Merseyside, England, on the Wirral Peninsula. It is west of the town of Bebington and is made up of Great Storeton and Little Storeton, which is classified as a hamlet. At the 2001 Census the population of Storeton was recorded as 150.
Storeton has Viking connections, the name deriving from the Old Norse Stor-tún, meaning "great farmstead".
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Stortone.
It has been thought that the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to Storeton Hall. Storeton Hall dates from the 14th century. It was formerly in Wirral Hundred.
Storeton was formerly a township in the parish of Bebington. It became a civil parish in its own right in 1866. In 1933 the parish was absorbed into the urban district of Bebington, which became the Municipal Borough of Bebington in 1937. Storeton remained a civil parish until 1974, but as an urban parish after 1933 it had no parish council, being directly administered by Bebington. The population of the parish was 180 in 1801, 233 in 1851, 265 in 1901 and 325 in 1951.
In October 1944 a USAAF Liberator Bomber number 42-50347 from the 445th Bombardment Group exploded without explanation over the fields between Little Storeton and Landican, with the loss of all 24 servicemen on board. The dead included 15 commissioned officers who were being taxied back to Tibenham after seeing more than 30 successful combat missions. In recent years a memorial stone has been erected by a local man who witnessed the aftermath of the crash as a teenager. The stone is coloured in the USAAF colours blue and yellow, with 24 yellow bricks each representing a life lost.[citation needed]
Storeton is in the centre of the Wirral Peninsula, approximately 8.5 km (5.3 mi) south-south-east of the Irish Sea at Leasowe, about 6 km (3.7 mi) east-north-east of the Dee Estuary at Heswall and less than 4 km (2.5 mi) west-south-west of the River Mersey at New Ferry. The village is west of Storeton Hill, at around 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.
On the ridge above the village Storeton Woods, owned by the Friends of Storeton Woods and covering 31 acres (130,000 m2). The woods were purchased in 1989 after a campaign by the local Green Party as there were concerns about the deteriorating condition of the woods and the possibility that the land might be bought by developers. The trust later also attempted to purchase the adjacent Hancock's Wood to extend the nature reserve by a further 25 acres (100,000 m2), but the deal with the Leverhulme estate fell through at the last minute. Although the offer remains open there is the concern that this could lead to the eventual development of the area of woodland for housing.[citation needed]
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Storeton
Storeton is a small village and former civil parish in the Wirral district, in the county of Merseyside, England, on the Wirral Peninsula. It is west of the town of Bebington and is made up of Great Storeton and Little Storeton, which is classified as a hamlet. At the 2001 Census the population of Storeton was recorded as 150.
Storeton has Viking connections, the name deriving from the Old Norse Stor-tún, meaning "great farmstead".
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Stortone.
It has been thought that the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to Storeton Hall. Storeton Hall dates from the 14th century. It was formerly in Wirral Hundred.
Storeton was formerly a township in the parish of Bebington. It became a civil parish in its own right in 1866. In 1933 the parish was absorbed into the urban district of Bebington, which became the Municipal Borough of Bebington in 1937. Storeton remained a civil parish until 1974, but as an urban parish after 1933 it had no parish council, being directly administered by Bebington. The population of the parish was 180 in 1801, 233 in 1851, 265 in 1901 and 325 in 1951.
In October 1944 a USAAF Liberator Bomber number 42-50347 from the 445th Bombardment Group exploded without explanation over the fields between Little Storeton and Landican, with the loss of all 24 servicemen on board. The dead included 15 commissioned officers who were being taxied back to Tibenham after seeing more than 30 successful combat missions. In recent years a memorial stone has been erected by a local man who witnessed the aftermath of the crash as a teenager. The stone is coloured in the USAAF colours blue and yellow, with 24 yellow bricks each representing a life lost.[citation needed]
Storeton is in the centre of the Wirral Peninsula, approximately 8.5 km (5.3 mi) south-south-east of the Irish Sea at Leasowe, about 6 km (3.7 mi) east-north-east of the Dee Estuary at Heswall and less than 4 km (2.5 mi) west-south-west of the River Mersey at New Ferry. The village is west of Storeton Hill, at around 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.
On the ridge above the village Storeton Woods, owned by the Friends of Storeton Woods and covering 31 acres (130,000 m2). The woods were purchased in 1989 after a campaign by the local Green Party as there were concerns about the deteriorating condition of the woods and the possibility that the land might be bought by developers. The trust later also attempted to purchase the adjacent Hancock's Wood to extend the nature reserve by a further 25 acres (100,000 m2), but the deal with the Leverhulme estate fell through at the last minute. Although the offer remains open there is the concern that this could lead to the eventual development of the area of woodland for housing.[citation needed]