Editing Netherton, Merseyside (section)

==History==
Before the Earl of Sefton relocated to Croxteth Hall in the late 18th century the family had a large estate in Netherton, with the main house and outbuildings located on the site of Our Lady of Walsingham school. The deer park is marked on numerous 17th and 18th century maps. and covered a large tract of land between what is now Bull Lane in Walton, Park Lane, Netherton Way, and Bootle Golf Course.

Netherton was anciently a [[township (England)|township]] associated with the [[parish]] of Sefton, becoming an independent [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in 1866.  It became part of [[Sefton Rural District]] under the [[Local Government Act 1894]], and then [[West Lancashire Rural District]] in 1932.<ref>Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Volume 2.</ref>

Netherton parish lost areas to the [[county borough]] of [[Bootle]] in 1940, 1951 and 1968 (reducing the parish from {{convert|1124|acre|km2|0}} in 1931 to {{convert|469|acre|km2|1}} in 1951).  The residual parish no longer exists, forming part of [[Sefton, Merseyside|Sefton]] parish.

The area has been a part of the [[Metropolitan Borough of Sefton]] since local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974.

For [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliamentary elections]] Netherton is within the [[Bootle (UK Parliament constituency)|Bootle]] constituency represented by the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MP [[Peter Dowd]].

For elections to [[Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council|Sefton Council]] Netherton is split between the [[Ward (country subdivision)|electoral wards]] of [[Netherton and Orrell (ward)|Netherton and Orrell]], whose three representatives are Susan Ellen Bradshaw, Robert John Brennan, and Ian Ralph Maher, and [[St. Oswald (ward)|St. Oswald]], whose three representatives are Paula Spencer, Carla Thomas and Linda Cluskey. All six councillors who represent the Netherton area are members of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].