Linacre is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Bootle Parliamentary constituency. It covers the area of Bootle historically known as Linacre, including Bootle town centre, the New Strand Shopping Centre, and Gladstone Dock. According to the 2021 census, the ward had a population of 13,601. From the 2026 United Kingdom local elections, the ward will be renamed Bootle West, following minor boundary changes.
Etymology The name Linacre derives from Middle English līn ('flax') and aker ('field'), thus once denoting a place associated with a flax-field.The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), III, p. 1592 [s.v. Linacre]; .
Election results Elections of the 2020s
Elections of the 2010s
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