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unusual facts about Edge Hill


Colm McFadden

He took his Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Liverpool Hope University, discussing football with a fellow teacher (and semi-professional footballer with a Conference team – name forgotten) during teaching practice at St Catherine's in Edge Hill.


Hunts Cross chord

Hunts Cross chord is a section of railway track in Liverpool that was built by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) to connect the LNWR's Edge Hill to Ditton Junction line with the CLC's Liverpool to Manchester Line.

John Grantham

In 1830, Grantham won a prize from the London and North Western Railway for a design for pulling up passenger carriages from Lime Street to Edge Hill Station, Liverpool, by stationary engines.

John Rushworth

After the outbreak of the Civil War, Rushworth as an "embedded journalist" followed the battles of Edge Hill (1642), Newbury (1643-1644), Marston Moor (1644) and Naseby (1645).

Mansell wheel

An example of such a wood block pavement made from wheel segments survives at Liverpool's Edge Hill.

Vale of the Red Horse

The Vale of the Red Horse is a rural area in South Warwickshire, England, below the escarpment of Edgehill in the parish of Tysoe.


see also

Lee Hudson

Hudson studied at Edge Hill university from 2008 to 2011 and was part of the victorious Great Britain Students side who won the Academic Ashes in Australia last year, playing underneath Clive Griffiths and alongside Crusaders team-mates Owain and Iwan Brown.

Liverpool to Wigan Line

In December 2009, the then Transport Secretary Lord Adonis, announced that the line between Huyton and St Helens Line Junctions will also be electrified along with the previously committed Edge Hill to Huyton Junction infill on the Liverpool to Manchester line, as part of a £200 million rail electrification scheme.

William Rutherford

Sir William Rutherford, 1st Baronet (1853–1927), British politician, MP for West Derby and Edge Hill