Birkenhead, in Cheshire, on the Mersey, opposite Liverpool and a suburb of it; a town of rapid growth, due to the vicinity of Liverpool; has large shipbuilding-yards and docks.
Population (circa 1900) given as 100,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Birkbeck, George * Birkenhead, Sir John