Editing Liverpool (section)

=== Environment ===
[[File:Liverpool Bay.png|thumb|[[Satellite imagery]] showing [[Liverpool Bay]], Liverpool and the wider [[Merseyside]] area]]
Liverpool has been described as having "the most splendid setting of any English city".<ref>The Buildings of England – Lancashire: Liverpool and the Southwest By Richard Pollard, Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale University Press, 2006, p243</ref> At {{Coord|53|24|0|N|2|59|0|W|type:city}} (53.4, −2.98), {{convert|176|mi|km|abbr=off|0}} northwest of London, located on the [[Liverpool Bay]] of the [[Irish Sea]], Liverpool is built across a ridge of [[sandstone]] hills rising up to a height of around {{convert|230|ft|m}} above sea-level at Everton Hill, which represents the southern boundary of the [[West Lancashire Coastal Plain]].

The [[Mersey Estuary]] separates Liverpool from the [[Wirral Peninsula]]. The boundaries of Liverpool are adjacent to [[Bootle]], [[Crosby, Merseyside|Crosby]] and [[Maghull]] in south [[Metropolitan Borough of Sefton|Sefton]] to the north, and [[Kirkby]], [[Huyton]], [[Prescot]] and [[Halewood]] in [[Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley|Knowsley]] to the east.