"The Wirral - a forgotten oas ..." a Heswall Travel Page by KennetRose

As there is no slot in VT for the Wirral, I've chosen Heswall to hang my impressions (partly because Sandy hasn't already baggsied it!).
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The Wirral is the tongue of land that protrudes into the Irish Sea between Liverpool and North Wales. It is bordered to the northeast by the River Mersey, to the southwest by the estuary of the River Dee, and for a short stretch in the northwest by Liverpool Bay.
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The Mersey shore is densely populated, industrialised and depressed; of little interest except for the Victorian model village of Port Sunlight. The Dee shore is marked by a long ridge of sandstone, which gives the local buildings their characteristic smokey-pink colour. The ridge is covered in heathland and gives beautiful views of the Dee estuary and North Wales. The centre of the Wirral was once low-lying marshland - the mediaeval author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight wrote of "The Wildernesse of Wyralle" - and is now dotted with picture-postcard villages that are little-known outside the area.
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Apart from the views, the sunsets are spectacular!