Editing Thingwall (section)

==History==
From the [[Old Norse]] {{lang|non|þing vollr}}, meaning 'assembly field',<ref name=liverpoolmuseums-placename>
{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/magical/placenames/thingwall.asp|title=Placenames: Thingwall|publisher=National Museums Liverpool|access-date=6 November 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608072231/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/magical/placenames/thingwall.asp|archive-date=8 June 2011}}</ref> the name indicates that it was once the site of a [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] [[thing (assembly)|''thing'']] (or ''þing''). Similar place names in the [[British Isles]] include [[Tynwald]], [[Dingwall]], and [[Tingwall (disambiguation)|Tingwall]]; see also [[Thingvellir]] in Iceland and [[Tingvoll Municipality|Tingvoll]] in Norway.{{sfn|Harding|2002|p=141-142}} A place called "Tingvalla" can also be found in the swedish town [[Karlstad#History|Karlstad]] where it can be dated back to the viking age as a councel- and marketplace.

The settlement was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Tuigvelle'',<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/cheshire2.html|title=Cheshire L-Z: Thingwall|publisher=The Domesday Book Online|access-date=6 November 2008}}</ref> and has been variously known as ''Fingwalle'' (1180); ''Thingale'' (circa 1250); ''Thynghwall'' (1426).<ref name=liverpoolmuseums-placename />
Thingwall was formerly a [[Township (England)|township]] in the parish of [[Woodchurch, Merseyside|Woodchurch]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3721|title=History of Thingwall, in Wirral and Cheshire|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=29 September 2024}}</ref> in [[Wirral Hundred]], in 1866 Thingwall became a separate [[civil parish]], on 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Birkenhead St Mary<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10117197|title=Relationships and changes Thingwall CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=29 September 2024}}</ref> and became part of Birkenhead [[county borough]]. The population was 52 in 1801, 96 in 1851, 156 in 1901<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/Thingwall|title=Thingwall|publisher=GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> and 652 in 1931.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10117197/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Thingwall CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=29 September 2024}}</ref>

Traditional buildings/walls in the area are constructed of locally-quarried yellow [[sandstone]]. Several small sandstone [[quarries]] once existed in the area including one at the top of the appropriately named Quarry Lane. Little evidence of these quarries now exists as the land has been redeveloped for housing or for the construction of a second above-ground fresh water [[reservoir]].

Thingwall Mill was constructed in the eighteenth century on the site of a much older medieval mill. Damaged in a storm in 1897 and subsequently disused, the mill was demolished in 1900.<ref name=liverpoolmuseums-placename /> However, remnants of the building, including the original [[millstone]], can still be found on Mill Road.

Thingwall Hall was built in 1849 for a Liverpool merchant and demolished in 1960.<ref name=liverpoolmuseums-placename /> It was part of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital from 1917, providing care for long-term patients.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=ConNarrative.180&chapterId=739|title=Port Cities: Liverpool Infirmary for Children|publisher=E. Chambré Hardman Archive|access-date=6 November 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013204614/http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=ConNarrative.180|archive-date=13 October 2007}}</ref>

On 1 April 1974, [[Local Government Act 1972|local government reorganisation]] in England and Wales resulted in most of Wirral, including Thingwall, being transferred from the county of [[Cheshire]] to [[Merseyside]].