St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens (pronunciation ) is a large town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 102,629. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, which had a population of 176,843 at the 2001 Census.St Helens is in the south west of the historic county of Lancashire, 6 miles (10 km) north of the River Mersey. The town historically lay within the ancient Lancashire division of West Derby known as a "hundred". It was created by incorporation as a municipal borough in 1868, bringing together the townships of Eccleston, Parr, Sutton and Windle, for administrative purposes.