Little Altcar

Little Altcar
Village
Shops on Redgate, Little Altcar
Little Altcar Little Altcar shown within Merseyside
Population	910 (2011)
OS grid reference	SD301065
Civil parish	Little Altcar
Metropolitan borough	Sefton
Metropolitan county	Merseyside
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LIVERPOOL
Postcode district	L37
Dialling code	01704
Police	Merseyside
Fire	Merseyside
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Sefton Central
List of places UK England Merseyside 53°32′56″N 3°03′11″W / 53.549°N 3.053°W / 53.549; -3.053Coordinates: 53°32′56″N 3°03′11″W / 53.549°N 3.053°W / 53.549; -3.053

Little Altcar is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton on Merseyside, on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain of England. The village has been absorbed into Formby. It has a population of 892, increasing to 910 at the 2011 Census.

The name Altcar is Norse meaning 'marsh by the River Alt'.

From 1950 until 2010 the village and Civil parish of Little Altcar was within the boundaries of the Crosby constituency, whose MP from 1997 till 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency. As a result of boundary revisions for the 2010 general election the Crosby constituency was abolished with its northern parts, including Little Altcar, being merged with the Eastern parts of Sefton that were formerly part of the Knowsley North and Sefton East constituency, to form the new constituency of Sefton Central, which is currently represented by the Labour Party MP Bill Esterson.