WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



benefactions, 1 and shares with West Derby in the 

 apprenticing funds of 167 a year arising from 

 donations of Eleanor Gleast and Thomas Aspe. 2 

 West Derby itself has a few special endowments. 3 In 

 connexion with the Old Toxteth chapel there was, in 

 1828, a sum of 2 a. year available for the poor. 4 



WEST DERBY 



Derbei, Dom. Bk. West Derbi, 1 177. 



This township extends over four miles from north 

 to south, and three and a half from east to west, having 

 3 total area of 6,203 acres. 5 A portion of it was taken 

 within the municipal borough of Liverpool as early as 

 1835;' and the greater part of the remainder in 

 1895 ; r the rural division outside Liverpool contains 

 2,594 acres. The population of the whole in 1901 



WALTON 



was 1 32,669, only 2,1 19 belonging to the part outside 

 the city. 



The portion absorbed by Liverpool in 1835 formed 

 a ward of the borough, known as West Derby Ward ; 

 this was in 1895 divided into three Low Hill, Ken- 

 sington, and Edge Hill, while the portion then freshly 

 included was divided into two wards Fairfield and 

 West Derby ; the division between them being the 

 railway from Edge Hill to the Bootle docks. The 

 rural portion of the township is governed by a parish 

 council. 8 



In the eighteenth century the township was divided 

 into four quarters : Woodside, on the east ; Town row, 

 embracing the village and the north-west portion ; Low 

 Hill, on the border of Liverpool ; and Ackers End, the 

 Old Swan district. 9 



The township lies on the edge of the open country, 

 where the smoke-laden air of the city is exchanged 



