Crosby

Crosby is a beach front town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. Generally in Lancashire, it is arranged north of Bootle, south of Southport and Formby and west of Netherton. The town shares Viking roots practically speaking with the other - by suffixed settlements of Formby toward the north and Kirkby toward the east. Crosby was known as Krossabyr in Old Norse, signifying "town with the cross".

The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Crosebi, and constantly 1212 had progressed toward becoming Crosseby. Local individuals are known as Crosbeians and were alluded to all things considered in the nearby press however the term is minimal utilized today. The opening of the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway in 1848 brought about the development of Crosby as suburb of Liverpool.

Crosby framed piece of the Crosby parliamentary body electorate from 1950 until 2010. The MP for Crosby from 1997 until the point when 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, an individual from the Labor Party; before her race the seat was for the most part viewed as a sheltered Conservative Party fortification with Tory MPs chose at each decision notwithstanding the Crosby by-race, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was chosen to speak to the body electorate.