Posts from the ‘Townships’ Category

History of Childwall

Childwall is a township of monastic fakery, a surprising number of streams, wells and brooks, and has maintained a green, sometimes park-like appearance across centuries.

• Monastic Fakery
• Watery Township
• The Read more

History of Allerton

Allerton is a green and pleasant land of parks, mansions and ‘neatly-kept hedges’. Early maps show that it remained – like much of suburban Liverpool – entirely rural until the middle of the 19th Century. Read more

History of Bootle

Bootle began its history as a large, well-defined village completely separate from Liverpool. But as the city expanded, Bootle found itself well-placed during the expansion in the Industrial Revolution. Read more

History of Aintree

Aintree is located at the north end of Liverpool. It remained as a tiny village until the 20th Century, before expanding rapidly, spurred by the race course, and the siting of new housing and industry Read more

History of Fazakerley

In the 13th Century Fazakerley was one of the Walton town fields, adjacent to which grew a hamlet, and later the town.

Fazakerly, 1321; Phesacrelegh, 1333 (VCH Lancs, III)

Landscape

Fazakerley is Read more

History of Hale

The north boundary of the township was (and still is) formed mainly by Ram’s Brook. The landscape is flat, with Lombardy poplars in plantations and farms. Henry II placed part of the township within the Read more

History of Garston

Garston lies on the banks of the Mersey, to the south of Liverpool city centre, and Toxteth. It is separated from the latter by the Otterspool. Two other brooks once flowed through the area, one of which Read more

History of Halewood

Halewood lies between the old course of the Ditton Brook to the north, and Ram’s Brook to the south. Halebank, on the Mersey, is the site of Lovel’s Hall, a large moated house. Several wide, main roads Read more

History of Huyton

There was no clear boundary between the townships of Huyton and Roby, to the south west of Huyton, but the boundary with Whiston was by a brook running through Tarbock to join Ditton Brook.

Hitune, Read more

History of Kirkdale

Kirkdale occupies an area of flat land on the banks of the Mersey, formerly consisting of sandhills, for which this part of the Sefton coast is still well known. It is one of the oldest coastal settlements, Read more

History of Liverpool

Before King John discovered the Liverpool’s potential as a launchpad for his Irish campaigns, there was little more than a few scattered settlements on the north bank of the Mersey. However, the creation Read more

History of Speke

Speke has always been a large township on the banks of the Mersey. Speke village itself never grew in size like the inner suburbs of Everton and Toxteth, but the large expanses of flat land attracted industry Read more

History of Walton

Walton-on-the-Hill has always been a very large township, containing some of the familiar suburbs in north Liverpool. At the north of the township is Warbreck, on the border with Aintree. The Guildhouses Read more

History of Wavertree

The highest part of the township is in the centre and to the north, at over 200 feet above sea level. The village itself stands at the highest part, on the road from Liverpool to Woolton, and known here Read more

History of West Derby

West Derby was once the centre of administration in the north west of England. As well as the seat of the Molyneux family, the township had its own castle and courthouse. However, as Liverpool grew in Read more

History of Woolton

Woolton is a very old centre of settlement in the north west. Situated in the southern part of the city today, historically it consisted of two distinct areas – Much Woolton and Little Woolton.

Uveton, Read more

History of Croxteth Park

Croxteth Park was part of the large hunting forest of Toxteth from the 12th Century onwards. This meant that it kept its green and rural character right up until the end of the 20th Century.

Croxtath, Read more

History of Everton

The highest point in the district is St. George’s Church, with the ground sloping away rapidly to the north and west. The ridge on which the village stands extends to Low Hill and Edge Hill, and the foot Read more