Southport

town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, England
Place town Q868647
Southport
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Summary

Southport is a town[1]. Southport ranks in the top 0.91% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,813 views/month, #86 of 9,456).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sefton[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: River Ribble[5]
  • Instance of: civil parish[6], unparished area[7], seaside resort[8]
  • Postal code: PR8[9], PR9[10]
  • Part of: Southport[11]
  • Commons category: Southport[12]
  • Located in time zone: UTC±00:00[13]
  • Local dialing code: 01704[14]
  • OS grid reference: SD333170[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Southport[16]
  • Described at URL: https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ireland/one-uks-worst-seaside-towns-36597971[17]
  • Population: 91,703[18]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Southport[23]
  • Category for people who died here: Q65619332[24]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Southport[25]
  • Category for maps or plans: Category:Maps of Southport[26]
  • Historic county: Lancashire[27]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Southport include Southport F.C.[28], an association football club[29], in United Kingdom[30], founded in 1881[31] and Southport railway station[32], a railway station[33], in United Kingdom[34].

Why It Matters

Southport has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Southport is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for Southport include Southport F.C.[28], an association football club[29], in United Kingdom[30], founded in 1881[31] and Southport railway station[32], a railway station[33], in United Kingdom[34].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . A Vision of Britain through Time. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . mirror.co.uk. Retrieved . mirror.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Sefton
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Southport
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 53.646944444444, 'lon': -3.0080555555556}
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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