WEST DERBY HUNDRED WALTON 



This township has a frontage to the Mersey of 

 nearly a mile and a half in length and extends 

 landward about two miles. The area is 1,207 

 acres. 9 The land rises from the river eastward, 

 until near Walton an elevation of 150 ft. is reached! 

 The population in 1901 was 58,556. There is 

 scarcely a square yard of ground left that is not 

 covered with crowded streets, railways, timber-yards, 

 canal wharfs, and, last but not least, extensive docks 

 and quays. A forest of masts and funnels takes 

 the place of green trees, and solid stone walls re- 

 flect themselves in the River Mersey instead of 

 Emmanuel church was in 1902 licensed for service grassy slopes. Huge warehouses rise up on every 

 under the rector of Walton. side. The hum of machinery mingles with the 



D^^TT T? cries of flocks f seagulls and the rush of passing and 



iJUUlivlL repassing vessels of all descriptions. The North Wall 



Boltelai, Dom. Bk. ; Bode, 1212, 1237; Botull, lighthouse and the battery are conspicuous objects 

 1306; Bothull, 1332 ; Bothell, 1348. along the river wall. 



named were the Bridges, 1 Tarletons, 8 Stananoughts, 3 

 and Whitfields. 1 The ancient family of Stonebridgeley 

 appears to have died out, 5 but the place of this name 

 was known in i639- 6 Edward Fazakerley of Mag- 

 hull, and Robert Turner of Fazakerley, were among 

 the church surveyors of 1650.' As 'papists' Percival 

 and Thomas Rice of Liverpool, and William Harrison 

 of Rainford, registered estates here in 1 7 1 7.' 



Samuel Hawarden Fazakerley, John Fazakerley. 

 John Atherton, and Richard Higginson were the chief 

 contributors to the land tax of 1785. 



A ichoolhouse was built in 1725 by Samuel Turner. 



