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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Chapters: West Derby, Croxteth, Wavertree, Old Swan, Woolton, Norris Green, Childwall, Belle Vale, Liverpool, Everton, Liverpool, Kirkdale, Merseyside, Fazakerley, Knotty Ash, Anfield, Liverpool, St Michael's Hamlet, Clubmoor, Warbreck, Central, Liverpool, Princes Park, Cressington, Tuebrook & Stoneycroft, Speke Garston, Picton, Liverpool, Allerton & Hunts Cross, Liverpool, Kensington & Fairfield, Riverside, Liverpool, Church, Liverpool, Greenbank, Liverpool, County, Liverpool, Yew Tree, Liverpool, Mossley Hill. Excerpt: West Derby is a suburb in the north of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is also a Liverpool City Council ward. At the 2001 Census, the population of the ward was 14,801 (7,182 males, 7,619 females). Mentioned in the Domesday Book, West Derby achieved significance far earlier than Liverpool itself. The name West Derby comes from a Old Norse word meaning "place of the wild beasts" and named an administrative area called the West Derby hundred, or West Derbyshire, which covered south west Lancashire. It was home to the Earls of Sefton (family name Molyneux), whose house, Croxteth Hall, and the surrounding countryside estate now forms Croxteth Park, an attractive public space. West Derby once had a castle, now completely disappeared, but still retains a courthouse built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I: the first (Wapentake) court in West Derby was established around 1,000 years ago. The West Derby Courthouse, built in 1586, was restored and conserved in 2005 and is the only freestanding post-medieval courthouse in Britain. The tiny Grade II* listed building is open to the public between 2 pm and 4 pm every Sunday except Easter from April to October inclusive, admission free. Opposite the Courthouse is a set of Victorian cast iron stocks once used as a public restraint punishment for offende...
