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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, England; designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd (constructed 1962–67).

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Liverpool, city and seaport, northwestern England, forming the nucleus of the metropolitan county of Merseyside in the historic county of Lancashire. The city proper, which is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, forms an irregular crescent along the north shore of the Mersey estuary a few miles from the Irish Sea. The first significant date in the history of Liverpool is 1207, when King John of England granted a charter for a planned new town there....

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