[2] This name bears evidence to Ince lying on a sandy ridge in the Alt valley, a place that in the past had been marshland.

From 1997 until 2010 the village and civil parish of Ince Blundell was part of the Knowsley North and Sefton East constituency represented by George Howarth, a Labour Party MP.

For elections to Sefton Council, the village and civil parish of Ince Blundell is part of Ravenmeols electoral ward which has three councillors.

Two are members of the Formby Residents Action Group (FRAG), Bob McCann (who also sits on the Ince Blundell Parish Council), Maria Bennett, and the third councillor, Nina Killen, represents the Labour party.

[9] Henry's estranged son Charles Robert Blundell (1761–1837) made a large collection of drawings many of which are also at the Walker.