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.
The area's history as an administrative centre dates back over 1000 years, when a Wapentake courthouse was established there by the Vikings.[1] West Derby (then called Derbei) was the largest settlement in Cheshire at the time of the Domesday Book (1086).[2] At this time, Liverpool was one of six berewicks (outlying estates) of West Derby.[3] The name of the Earldom of Derby (first creation 1139) confers its title from West Derby (as opposed to Derby or Derbyshire).[4]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.
Referecnes
- ↑ 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