Pensby (locally /ˈpɛnzbi/) is a large village on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside, England.

[3] The name Pensby comes from Old Norse, meaning a village or settlement at a hill called "Penn".

[4][5] The "by" suffix, included in neighbouring place names such as Frankby, Greasby, and Irby, is Viking in origin.

This was due to the building of new houses around the turn of the twentieth century at the crossroads of Pensby Road and Gills Lane.

[9] Further changes occurred on 1 April 1974, when local government reorganisation resulted in most of Wirral, including Pensby, transfer from Cheshire to the newly formed metropolitan county of Merseyside.

At local government level, it is part of a Pensby and Thingwall Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.

[12] The Pensby Hotel was the single pub in the village, but after a £500,000 cannabis bust by police, was boarded up and left empty after October 2013.

The famous Everton FC footballer Dixie Dean played for Pensby Institute in his early days, on the fields at the side of Gills Lane.

Built in 1688, with some structural additions to the property in the 19th century, it was designated a Grade II listed building in 1962.