Firstlyfor those of you with children, an interest in magical fiction or English legends Merlin Park has nothing all to do with King Arthur or Harry Potter.............

Merlin Park is built on part of the site of the former HMRNS Ringtail, a Royal Naval air station (known as a “stone frigate” to those in the service), built in 1942 to accommodate both the Carrier borne aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm when docked in Liverpool and to act as an assembly plant and distribution point for the Royal Naval aircraft shipped into Liverpool docks from America for Fleet Air Arms. Most of the RAF work was done at the massive Burtonwood aerodrome,near Warrington, however, Ringtail was the biggest naval operation of its type during WW2. It eventually passed into RAF control and was finally closed in 1958.
Current visitors may like to note that the first floor office at Huws Gray Timber on Tollgate Road has a balcony that honours the view from, and the style of, the original derelict WW2 control tower that had to be demolished in 2006.
There is still some local evidence of the aerodrome buildings and it is interesting and apt to note that this piece of Lancashire farmland has been in successful industrial use for over 65 years.
A fair number of the xx thousand aircraft assembled at HMRNAS Ringtail were powered by the world beating Rolls Royce Merlin engine........! so it seemed an apt choice for us to name our development in honour of the men, and the machines they worked on, that made the Burscough area so successful and important when it really mattered.