[1] Kirkdale is bordered by Bootle to the north, Walton and Everton to the east and Vauxhall to the south.

Kirkdale is a working class area with mainly Victorian terraced houses.

The old Easby estate has been demolished to make way for new two-, three- and four-bedroom properties.

There are three railway stations in the district, owing to its size and location near where the Merseyrail Northern Line branches diverge.

[6] There are also buried some of the victims of the Liverpool Blitz including notably Francis William Lionel Collings Beaumont, son of the Dame of Sark,[7] and his actress wife Mary Lawson.