What is the population rank of the official region of England which has the town of St Helens ?
North West England North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011. It is the third most populated region in the United Kingdom after the South East and Greater London.
Rainford Rainford is a village and civil parish within Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. It is around 5 mi north of St Helens. At the 2001 Census the population of the civil parish was 8,344, reducing to 7,779 at the 2011 Census.