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The Chantry Well, Huyton

From The Ancient Crosses of Lancashire by Henry Taylor: These words occur on the 1848 six-inch ordnance map close to some old cottages, about one hundred yards to the north... read more

Alder Hey barracks and the Remains of War

Those of you trying to drive past Sainsbury’s on East Prescot Road in West Derby back in March 2013 may have found themselves diverted around a police bomb squad. A... read more

Stanley Park, landscape of leisure

North Liverpool is an area that I’ve become much more interested in since I started Historic Liverpool. It’s seen such changes in its time, and been home to every part... read more

Photograph of Lunt Meadows nature reserve, Sefton, Lancashire

Lunt Meadows Mesolithic settlement

Ron Cowell of the Museum of Liverpool discovered a Mesolithic settlement at Lunt Meadows in 2012. Ron had been leading an excavation there on behalf of the Environment Agency. Archaeologists... read more

Liverpool’s Electric Tramway

This article all about transport: roads, rail and that in-between technology, trams. Like a lot of Liverpool’s landscape, the trams were both pioneering and behind the times. The first Act... read more

Extract from an 1885 map of Liverpool by Bacon

Waterloo, Victoria and Trafalgar Docks: Liverpool at the forefront of dock technology

When reading about Liverpool’s ever-expanding dockland landscape, you can’t help but be drawn into the technological advances. These too helped create the dock landscape we see today. The map here... read more

Extract from a 1950s Ordnance Survey map of Liverpool, with the location of Williamson's Tunnels outlined

Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels

Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels are the maze-like remains of excavations under Edge Hill. They are the work of Joseph Williamson under the streets of east central Liverpool, constructed in the early... read more

Shirdley Hill Sand, Sefton Coast

Wind dropped Shirdley Hill Sand across a vast swathe of land in the millennia since the last glaciation. The sand lies along the Sefton Coast several kilometres inland, and has... read more

Photograph of Liverpool taken from an aeroplane

Merseyside Uplands

The Merseyside Uplands include the higher ground to the east of Croxteth, and strips at Mossley Hill and elsewhere. They have had an important influence on Merseyside and Liverpool throughout... read more

Photograph of Mersey Flat wreck, River Mersey near Widnes

River Mersey

The valley of the River Mersey was created during the last ice age. Thick glaciers moved inland from what is now the Irish Sea, carving deep parallel iceways. The iceways... read more

The Pool: Liverpool’s beginnings

The Pool is arguably one of the major reasons for Liverpool’s existence. King John was looking for a suitable place from which to launch ships to Ireland, and Liverpool fit... read more

A photo of early morning sun among the woodland of Sefton park, Liverpool.

Woodland on Merseyside and the Mersey Forest

The year 2011 was declared as the International Year of Forests by the UN (see the Echo for some of Liverpool’s plans). The very modern Mersey Forest has seen 8... read more

Edge Hill Station shown on a Victorian postcard

Edge Hill: the First Ever Passenger Station

Edge Hill has had two stations in its history. The earlier of these was the first passenger station in the world, along with Liverpool Street in Manchester. The first station... read more

Madryn Street, in a map from 1890

Madryn Street: Ringo’s Birthplace and the Welsh Streets

The childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney are massively popular tourist attractions. George Harrison’s and Ringo’s homes (like 9 Madryn Street) don’t get so much as a blue... read more

Map of Knott's Hole, from the Ordnance Survey Edition of 1908

Knott’s Hole and the Garden Festival Site

The former site of Liverpool’s historic Garden Festival saw the latest phase of its history in 2010, when work got under way to restore the parkland and kick-restart the building... read more

Photograph of Lewis's department store, Liverpool

Lewis’s Department Store

David Lewis founded a small shop selling men’s and boy’s clothing in 1856. The sale of women’s clothes began in 1864, and by the 1870s Lewis’s Department Store was in... read more

Liverpool ‘one of the earliest seaside resorts’

Liverpool's modern tourist trade traces its roots back to the 18th century, earlier than Blackpool and Southport

Manchester Dock: the ‘lost’ dock under the Museum of Liverpool

The earliest dock on the waterfront was buried for years under a car park, until it was excavated in 2007.

Mapping the history of Liverpool

Old maps of Liverpool, articles and interactive maps of the historic landscapes of Merseyside.

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Many of the maps on this site can be bought as high quality prints, either as paper or ready-framed.

You can also buy notebooks, postcards, greetings cards and other map-printed items!

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The book

Liverpool: a landscape history is a book about Liverpool and Merseyside from the very earliest days to the 21st century.

You’ll learn about everything from the Calderstones to the Capital of Culture.

Signed copies are available direct from me, the author, in the shop.

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