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West Derby is a suburb in the north of Liverpool, England, that achieved significance far earlier than Liverpool itself. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, its name comes from a Viking 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 is also a Liverpool City Council ward.

History

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. The former UK soap opera Brookside was filmed on a housing estate built on some of Lord Sefton's estate. This is the actual birth place of Adam Fitzsimmons, son of sinbad, whilst filming an episode of Brookside

West Derby once had a castle, now completely disappeared, but still retains a courthouse built under Queen Elizabeth I: the first court in West Derby was established around 1,000 years ago.

The West Derby Courthouse, built in 1586, was restored and conserved in 2005. It 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 offenders. The stocks were placed in their current position to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII in 1902.

There is also some suggestion of a Roman site on a street called Castlesite (nicknamed "The Rosies" by some locals). The site is now a small public park, the shape and dimensions of which are similar to that of a Roman barracks or castra. The remnants of a wooden castle were unearthed on this plot during excavations in the mid 1930s.

Organisations

The world famous Alder Hey Children's Hospital is on the south side of West Derby, on Eaton Road.

West Derby is the location for the training grounds of two English Football League teams: Everton F.C., at Bellefield, and Liverpool F.C., at Melwood.

The West Derby Society was founded in 1977 and holds regular monthly meetings and outings. It also lobbies on planning and environmental issues.

The West Derby Community Association, a registered charity, runs a community centre at Grade II-listed Lowlands in West Derby. Lowlands was recently awarded a £1 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant for access, renovation and conservation work scheduled to begin in autumn 2007.

People

West Derby is home to a number of schools that have produced famous students; West Derby Comprehensive[1] (Craig Charles), St. Edward's College (Sir Terry Leahy, Philip Olivier), Cardinal Heenan (Steven Gerrard, Mike di Scala) and Holly Lodge (Atomic Kitten).

Well known residents of West Derby have been; Pete Best, the first The Beatles drummer who lived in Haymans Green ; Bill Shankly the iconic Liverpool FC football manager, whose house overlooked Bellefield; Carla Lane the scriptwriter, lived close by, as did Eddie Braben, the scriptwriter for Morecambe and Wise and Bessie Braddock the famous Liverpool Exchange Division MP lived behind his house.

Transport

West Derby railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line.

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City of Liverpool
Districts
Aigburth \| Allerton \| Anfield \| Belle Vale \| Broadgreen \| Canning \| Childwall \| Clubmoor \| Croxteth \| Dingle \| Dovecot \| Edge Hill \| Everton \| Fairfield \| Fazakerley \| Garston \| Gateacre \| Grassendale \| Hunts Cross \| Kensington \| Kirkdale \| Knotty Ash \| Mossley Hill \| Netherley \| Norris Green \| Old Swan \| St Michael's Hamlet \| Speke \| Stoneycroft \| Toxteth \| Tuebrook \| Walton \| Wavertree \| West Derby \| Woolton
City Council Wards
Allerton & Hunts Cross \| Anfield \| Belle Vale \| Central \| Childwall \| Church \| Clubmoor \| County \| Cressington \| Croxteth \| Everton \| Fazakerley \| Greenbank \| Kensington & Fairfield \| Kirkdale \| Knotty Ash \| Mossley Hill \| Norris Green \| Old Swan \| Picton \| Princes Park \| Riverside \| Speke Garston \| St Michaels \| Tuebrook and Stoneycroft \| Warbreck \| Wavertree \| West Derby \| Woolton \| Yew Tree

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City of Liverpool
Liverpool skyline, as seen from across the River Mersey

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Location within England
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today.
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Viking, also called Norseman or Northman, refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 8th to the 11th century^[1]
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West Derby (sometimes known as West Derbyshire) was an ancient division of the historic county of Lancashire, England.

It covered the southwest of Lancashire, containing the parishes of Walton, Sefton, Childwall, Huyton, Halsall, Altcar, North Meols, Ormskirk,
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Lancashire

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region North West England
Area
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin.
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See City of Liverpool for other meanings

Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. It consists of 90 councillors, three for each of the city's 30 wards.
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ward is an electoral district within a municipality used in local politics. An example is The ward of Middleton St George in Northern England.

The Hoddle Grid area of Melbourne in the nineteenth century was divided into four wards: Bourke, Gipps, La Trobe and Lonsdale.
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Earl of Sefton was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1771 for the 8th Viscount Molyneux, and the once Aristocratic Molyneux family. The Earls of Sefton held the subsidiary titles Viscount Molyneux
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Croxteth Hall

Croxteth Hall in the 1820s.
Building information
Location Liverpool
Country England

Construction start date 1575

Croxteth Hall
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soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap.
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Brookside, commonly referred to as "Brookie", was a soap opera based in West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool, England, United Kingdom - introduced with the then new British television network, Channel 4.
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A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a building
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Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England, France (in name only), and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. She is sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess
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Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea.
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castra,^[1] with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean any building or plot of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military defensive position.
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Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust

Location
Place Liverpool Merseyside, England, (UK)

Organisation
Care System Public NHS
Hospital Type
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The English football league system, otherwise known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in England (although for historical reasons a small number of Welsh clubs also compete).
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Everton F.C.

Full name Everton Football Club
Nickname(s) The Toffees, The Blues,
The People's Club
Founded 1878 as St. Domingo F.C.
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Liverpool F.C.

current season
Full name Liverpool Football Club
Nickname(s) The Reds
Founded March 15 1892
Ground Anfield
Liverpool, England
Capacity 45,362
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Melwood, in West Derby, Liverpool, is home to Liverpool FC's training ground. It is not attached to The Academy, which is in Kirkby.

It is based in the West Derby area of Liverpool and has been their home since the fifties.
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St. Edward's College
Courage Through Faith (formerly Viriliter Age) (Act Manly)

Voluntary Aided
1853

John Waszek

over 1276

Purple, Black

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

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Sir Terry Leahy (born 28 February 1956) is the CEO of Tesco, the largest British supermarket chain. He was knighted in 2002, and was Chancellor of UMIST, his alma mater, from that year until 1 October 2004 when he became co-chancellor of the newly formed University of Manchester.
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Philip Olivier

Birth name Philip Lee Borg-Olivier
Born 4 May 1980 (age 27)
Liverpool, England

Years active 1996 - present

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Full name Steven George Gerrard
Date of birth May 30 1980 (age 27)
Place of birth
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Mike Di Scala is a British music producer, remixer and DJ.

Di Scala is a member of Ultrabeat, Rezonance Q, Clear Vu, Chosen Few, BCD Project, 3 Amigos and King of Clubs - as well as producing tracks under the alias of Re-Con.
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Atomic Kitten is an English girl group from Liverpool composed of Liz "Lil" McClarnon, Natasha "Tash" Hamilton, and Jenny Frost - who replaced original member Kerry Katona in January 2001.
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Randolph Peter Best (born November 24, 1941 in Madras, India) is a British musician, best known as the original drummer for The Beatles.

Early years

Pete Best is the son of Mona Best, the owner of the Casbah Club, where The Beatles later played.
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The Beatles were an English musical group from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
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