Fairfield, Liverpool
| Fairfield | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 Sign entering Fairfield | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ379900 |
| Location: | 53°24’14"N, 2°56’6"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Liverpool |
| Postcode: | L6, L7 |
| Dialling code: | 0151 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Liverpool |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Liverpool Wavertree |
Fairfield, once a village, is now an area of Liverpool in Lancashire, entirely contiguous with the cityscape all around. It encompasses streets between Tuebrook and Kensington and stretching to Old Swan.
The name of the village in an older form means 'swine pasture' from the Old English for ('swine') and feld ('field'). The name was recorded as Fornefeled in 1129.
The area today is primarily residential although a few industrial estate roads exist. It consists of a variety of houses; there are some traditional red-brick terraces, larger Victorian villas and also the notable 300-year-old Georgian Fairfield Crescent which is off the equally old Prospect Vale. The area also contains a Victorian park, Newsham Park.
Has a new shopping development on Prescot Road, which brings retail stores into a once neglected neighbourhood centre.
A community fire station on Beech Street opened in 2010 by the Duchess of Gloucester, is known as Kensington Fire Station (after the neighbouring district).
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