Oxton Village is a mainly early Victorian era settlement with fine sandstone and brick built houses, many of which now form part of a conservation area designated in April 1979 and administered by the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.

The Wirral peninsula is formed of Triassic Keuper and Bunter sandstones covered by glacially deposited boulder clay.

The historic settlement of Oxon-hill laid to the north-eastern side of the peninsula on the sandstone ridge near to current location of St Saviours Church and the Caernarfon Castle public house[7] Oxton Village pre-dates the conurbation that developed around Birkenhead, of which it now forms part.

[8] Originally an agricultural community, Oxton became a desirable residential location for the middle classes and bourgeoisie[9] as the economy of 19th century Birkenhead and Liverpool grew.

Irregular in places, the boundary has a number of ‘pockets' encompassing small groups of properties or parts of streets.

[12] Owing to a redefining of post towns by the Royal Mail in 2003, Oxton is partially identified as being within Prenton.

[16] Both changes were driven by falling numbers of pupils in the schools as a result of the abolition of the Assisted Places Scheme.

[21] Part of the township was administratively absorbed into Birkenhead in 1843 when it was added to the improvement commissioners' district which covered the town.

The local government district was abolished in 1877 and its area was incorporated into the new municipal borough of Birkenhead.

[27] The director of The Twentieth Century Society, Catherine Croft, described the building as "the first example of outsider art to be nationally listed".