WEST DERBY HUNDRED WALTON 



descendants till 1 7 1 7, when it was sold, with other family acquired it in Henry VI's reign, when Sir 



Derby manors, to Isaac Greene, 1 and has de: 



like Childwall to the marquis 



of Salisbury, the present lord 



of the manor.' Courts are 



held. 



A body of commissioners for 

 the management of the lands 

 formerly waste has long been 

 in existence. 3 



The sites of four ancient 

 mills are known : A water-mill 

 by the castle, below the church ; 

 a horse-mill at the castle ; a 

 windmill in Mill Lane ; and 

 Ackers Mill, in the eastern 

 corner of the township. 4 



Croxteth Hall, formerly 

 called Barret's Hall, the chief 

 seat of the earl of Sefton, 



ended Richard Molyneux was steward of the manor, 5 and 

 about 1540 was one of the chief residences of the 

 Molyneux family. 6 The deeds at Croxteth show 

 various acquisitions of land in West Derby, beginning 

 in 1545.' 



The oldest part of the existing building is the 

 western half of the south wing, now much hidden 

 by kitchens built in front of it in 1874. ^ ' s f 

 brick with stone dressings and mullioned windows, 

 and has two bays projecting southward. Its date 

 is c. 1575-1600, the details being plain, and it 

 GASCOYNE-CICIL, is P robable tiia t the house of which it is the only 

 uess of Salisbury! surviving portion was neither large nor elaborate. 



Barry of , 



able, each 



rgent and The south front may originally have had a third pre 

 all six escut- j ec ti n g bay to the west, destroyed by the building of 

 TrreT-witha l ^ e west W ' n 8> ant ^ perhaps a courtyard on the north, 

 of the first, a but of this there is no trace. 



The west wing is the finest part of the building 

 and was added, as dates upon it show, between 1702 



situated in this township on the borders of Croxteth and 1714. It has a raised terrace on the west, and 

 Park, from which it takes its name. The Molyneux contains a fine set of lofty panelled rooms opening 



