What is the origin of the name Meols?
The name Meols arrived with the Vikings, who called it by an Old Norse word meaning sand dunes. By 1086, the Domesday Book recorded the spelling as melas.
The name Meols arrived with the Vikings, who called it by an Old Norse word meaning sand dunes. By 1086, the Domesday Book recorded the spelling as melas.
In 1938, workers discovered what was believed to be a Viking Nordic clinker boat beneath clay during the rebuilding of the Railway Inn public house. Ground penetrating radar equipment confirmed the existence of the boat and its precise location on the 10th of September 2007.
On the 31st of December 1894 it was abolished to create the Hoylake and West Kirby civil parish. Between 1894 and 1974 it remained within the Hoylake Urban District before most of the Wirral Peninsula transferred from Cheshire to Merseyside on the 1st of April 1974.
Miles Kane is from Meols and Andy McCluskey co-founded the electronic music band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). Cyclist Chris Boardman won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics while living in Meols before moving to nearby Hoylake.
BT removed the phone box in August 2017 but returned it by October after a fan campaign. Fans would call the hidden number 632-3003 from all over the world regarding the public telephone box between the church and the Railway Inn.