West Derby
West Derby, a historically important medieval manor, is a village in Lancashire that now forms a suburb of Liverpool. It lends its name to the largest hundred in the County Palatine. As of 2021, the West Derby ward had a population of 13,837.[1] It sits in the north-east of the city, south of Croxteth, west of Yew Tree, north of Knotty Ash, east of Tuebrook, Stoneycroft and Clubmoor, and south-east of Norris Green.
The area's history as an administrative centre dates back over 1000 years, when a Wapentake courthouse was established there by the Vikings.[2] West Derby (then called Derbei) was the largest settlement in Cheshire at the time of the Domesday Book (1086).[3] At this time, Liverpool was one of six berewicks (outlying estates) of West Derby.[4] The name of the Earldom of Derby (first creation 1139) confers its title from West Derby (as opposed to Derby or Derbyshire).[5]The district was incorporated into Liverpool between 1835, when the city's administrative boundaries expanded to include West Derby, and 1922, when the West Derby civil parish was abolished.
West Derby Hundred
West Derby Hundred, sometimes known as West Derbyshire, is the largest hundred in Lancashire and effectively forms the south-western part of that county. As well as West Derby itself, all of Liverpool is within the hundred, as are the Bootle, Leigh, Halsall, Huyton, Prescot, Ormskirk, St Helens, Sefton, Southport, Walton, the northern part of Warrington, Wigan and Winwick.
Referecnes
- ↑ West Derby (Ward, United Kingdom)
- ↑ West Dervy Courthouse - Liverpool - BBC
- ↑ Cheshire - Domesday Book
- ↑ History of West Derby: medieval manor and consular suburb
- ↑ Stanley, Peter Edward, The House of Stanley: The History of an English Family from the 12th Century (Pentland Press, 1998), p. 139
