Rainhill is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

[4] Historically part of Lancashire, Rainhill was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Prescot and hundred of West Derby.

[8] Towards the end of the 18th century, four Catholic sons of a farmer, who came from the area around Stonyhurst, decided to seek their fortunes in Liverpool.

He was running coaches to and from Manchester fourteen times a day from the Saracen's Head in Dale Street, Liverpool.

[citation needed] During the Victorian era, Rainhill was the location of a notorious mass murderer; Frederick Bailey Deeming.

In March 1892, the bodies of a woman and her four children were discovered buried under the concrete floor of Dinham Villa, Lawton Road, Rainhill.

With the establishment in 1753 of the Liverpool to Prescot turnpike,[13] and its subsequent extension to Rainhill and then on to Warrington, a system of toll bars was installed with one such barrier at the stoops.

The milestone on the bridge that informs travellers of the distances to Warrington, Prescot and Liverpool was moved to the opposite side at the time of the expansion.

Rainhill has several medical centres but the largest and most notable is Scott Clinic which once treated Michael Abram after he was convicted of stabbing Beatles member George Harrison.

Regular buses are serving the area notably the 10A bus route which runs from Queen's Square in Liverpool city centre via Kensington, Page Moss, Huyton and Rainhill to St Helens.

Rainhill High School has a Sixth Form Centre offering A-levels and Level 3 vocational qualifications.

Tower College is also situated in Rainhill and is a private independent school which provides education for children aged 3–16.

[23] Former Beatles guitarist and famous Liverpudlian George Harrison makes a jokey reference to Rainhill in a lyric in the title song from his 1982 LP Gone Troppo.