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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ainsdale like this:
AINSDALE, a hamlet in Formby chapelry, Lancashire; 3½ miles S of Southport. It has a station on the Liverpool and Southport railway.
Ainsdale is now part of SEFTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how SEFTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ainsdale itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ainsdale, in Sefton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9817
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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