

WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



lowest level, about 50 ft. above the Ordnance datum, 

 is reached ; the greatest height is about looft., on the 

 south side of the township. The country is extremely 

 flat and treeless, with nothing to recommend it to the 

 passer-by, for it seems to be a district of straight 

 lines, devoid of any beauty. Rather bare fields on the 

 south and east under mixed cultivation give some 

 variety to the pasture land. The geological forma- 

 tion is triassic, the southern part of the township con- 

 sisting of pebble beds, and the northern part of the 

 upper mottled sandstone of the bunter series. The 

 population in 1901 numbered 1,887. 



Agriculture is the chief occupation, but the jam 

 works established here have attained considerable mag- 

 nitude, and on the Aintree border have given name to 

 a little town known as Hartley's Village. 



The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's railway 

 from Liverpool to Manchester crosses the township with 



WALTON 

 The cottage homes for the children of the West 



Derby Union are situated near the station. Harbreck 



House has been transformed into an infectious diseases 



hospital by the Liverpool Corporation. The Everton 



Burial Board have a cemetery, 



and the Jewish connexion have 



a small burial-ground on the 



Walton border. The West 



Derby sewage farm occupies the 



eastern edge of the township. 

 The township was included in 



the City of Liverpool in 1905. 

 The early history 



M4NOR of the manor is 

 obscure, Henry and 



Richard de Fazakerley, the first 



of the local family on record, 



appearing towards the end of 



a station called Fazakerley, near which is a junction the thirteenth century. 1 Richard had thr 



ith the branch line to the Liverpool docks. Here are 

 the company's signal works. The Cheshire Lines Com- 



Henry, Richard, and Robert ; * and Henry's son 

 Robert de Fazakerley was lord of the manor for 



littee's railways from Liverpool to Southport and to about forty years. 3 After his death 



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