Halewood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It lies near the city of Liverpool's southeastern boundary, bordered by the suburbs of Netherley, Hunt's Cross and Woolton.Historically a part of Lancashire, at the 2001 Census, the population of the civil parish was 20,309. The combined population of Halewood's four local government wards was 29,217.Halewood railway station opened in 1988.