Editing Merseyside (section)

==== Ferries ====
[[File:Seacombe Ferry Terminal Entrance (geograph 5384500).jpg|thumb|Seacombe Ferry Terminal]]
Prince's Landing Stage on Liverpool's [[Pier Head]] serves [[Isle of Man Steam Packet Company]] summer service to the [[Isle of Man]] (and Mersey Ferries). The [[Twelve Quays]] ferry port in Birkenhead serves winter Isle of Man ferry service and [[Stena Line]] services to [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]. Almost three quarters of a million people{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} travel these [[Irish Sea]] ferry services.<ref>{{cite news |title=Direct Ferries Ltd: How To Get To Liverpool Ferry Port |url=http://www.directferries.co.uk/liverpool.htm |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=February 2011 |title=parliament.uk: Written evidence from Blundellsands Sailing Club (MCA 53) |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmtran/948/948vw42.htm |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref>

The [[Mersey Ferry]] has operated since the 1200s, currently between [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]] and [[Liverpool City Centre]] at Seacombe, Woodside and Liverpool Pier Head. In 2009–2010 it had 684,000{{nbsp}}passengers using the service.<ref>{{cite news |date=2009–2010 |title=Merseytravel: Annual Statistical Monitor 2009/10 |url=http://www.letstravelwise.org/files/1965510687_MON10pdf.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419014128/http://www.letstravelwise.org/files/1965510687_MON10pdf.pdf |archive-date=19 April 2014 }}</ref>