The Belle Vale area shares borders with Huyton, Netherley, Gateacre and Childwall.

The Belle Vale area is also divided with different housing estates having their own local names, such as Hartsbourne, Lee Park and Naylorsfield.

In 1901 Belle Vale Hall was owned by Thomas Harrison, a merchant and ship owner.

The west window in the church was designed by Edward Burne-Jones for Morris & Co. and was a gift from Sir Andrew Barclay Walker in memory of his first wife who died in 1882.

[7] Over one-thousand prefabricated homes were erected on land around the hamlet, named Belle Vale Estate Gateacre on the plans, between 1945 and 1947, to provide affordable rented accommodation for people whose homes were destroyed in bombing raids on the city during World War II, making it one of the largest Prefab communities in the country.

[8] Its most famous former resident is Sir Terry Leahy, previously chief executive of Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket chain.

Paul McCartney attended Joseph Williams Primary School, then in Sunnyfield Road on the Prefab estate, from 1949 to 1953.

Gateacre School relocated to land off Hedgefield Road, including part of the former Reggie Smith Playing Fields, in 2011.

[14] The football facilities formerly on the site were relocated to a new centre at nearby Caldway Drive in Netherley.

Belle Vale has its own small bus interchange next to the shopping centre on Hedgefield Road, connecting to, among other areas, Huyton and St Helens eastbound and Woolton, Halewood, Garston and Speke southbound.