Merseyside coat of arms-flag

Embroidered patch shows Merseyside coat of arms. Patch made on blue background with white wavy lines in the middle and six golden mural crowns.The County Flag of Merseyside. The waves represent the River Mersey; the six golden mural crowns represent the six County Boroughs—Birkenhead, Bootle, Liverpool, Southport, St Helens, and Wallasey—that went into the county of Merseyside upon its creation.Merseyside is a county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool. Merseyside, which was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, takes its name from the River Mersey. The largest city-Liverpool.