Heswall is a town on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England and a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974 it was part of Cheshire.

The Wirral Peninsula, known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpool Bay to the north.