sentences:  It is located very closely to Eastham and Bromborough and just a short distance away from Neston.At the 2001 Census, the total population of Willaston and Thornton ward was 4,913.Willaston (or "Wilaveston") was the earlier name of the Wirral Hundred ("Hundred of Wilaveston"), the peninsula's former administrative division, and one of the Hundreds of Cheshire.