Halewood is a town in theMetropolitan Borough of Knowsley inMerseyside,England. It lies near the city ofLiverpool's southeastern boundary. It is bordered by the suburbs of Netherley, Hunt's Cross and Woolton. Halewood was historically a part ofLancashire.
At the2001 Census, the population of thecivil parish was 20,309. It was similar at the 2011 Census. The combined population of Halewood's four local government wards was 29,217.
Halewood railway station opened in 1988. An earlier station, a few hundred metres further east, closed in 1951.