Meols

This article is about the village on the Wirral Peninsula. See also Meols Cop for the Southport suburb.

Meols /ˈmɛlz/ is a village on the northern coast of the Wirral Peninsula, England. It is contiguous with the larger town of Hoylake, situated immediately to the west. Historically in Cheshire, since 1 April 1974 it has been a part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the metropolitan county of Merseyside. The 2001 Census recorded the population of Meols as 5,110 (2,380 males, 2,730 females). The population of Meols was no longer recorded at the Census 2011. For more general statistics see Meols (Ward).