Guidebook for Liverpool

The English city of Liverpool is located on the eastern side of the River Mersey estuary, in Merseyside in the north west of the country. The Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and includes the Pier Head, Albert Dock and William Brown Street. The city is also home to two of the most famous Premier League football clubs in the country; Liverpool Football Club and Everton Football Club and matches between the two clubs are referred to as the Merseyside Derby. Also hosted by the city is the world famous Grand National which is held at the city's Aintree Racecourse. From Liverpool's industrial past, railways, transatlantic steamships, electric trains and public trams were all pioneered in the city as methods of mass transport. The world's first railway tunnels were constructed under Liverpool and 1829 and 1836 and the world's first scheduled passenger helicopter service, which operated between Liverpool and Cardiff, started in 1950. The Port of Liverpool is one of the largest ports in the UK and is home to passenger ferry services that depart to Belfast, Dublin and to the Isle of Man.