A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



neighbouring townships. The Molyneux family of 

 Sefton ' and Moores of Bank Hall were also tenants.* 

 Deeds relating to other holdings have been preserved.* 

 In 1667 Isaac Legay of London, merchant, sold 

 the manor or reputed manor of Linacre to Edward 

 Moore of Bankhall, 4 and with Bootle it was afterwards 

 sold to the earl of Derby, and has since descended. 



Bootle-cum-Linacre 4 was incorpo- 

 BOROUGH rated by charter dated 30 December, 

 1868, and became a county borough 

 under the Local Government Act, i888. 6 There 

 are three wards Derby, Stan- 

 ley, and Knowsley in the 

 north-east, south-west and north- 

 west respectively. Derby Ward 

 includes the ancient village. 

 Each ward has two aldermen 

 and six councillors. A separate 

 commission of the peace was 

 granted in 1876, and a borough 

 police force established in 1887. 

 Water is supplied by the Liver- BOROUGH 



pool Corporation, and gas by Argent, on a chevron 

 the Liverpool company, which between three feurs de 



has works near Linacre. The ^SteAHtUv t'm'm 

 electric tramways are worked chie j- sahlt , hree mural 

 in connexion with the Liverpool crowns of the first. 

 system. 



The town hall and public offices, built in 1882, 

 are situated in Balliol Road. Baths and a public library 

 are provided. There are two hospitals. 7 A school 

 board was formed in 1870. Derby Park is situated 

 in the eastern portion of the borough ; two open 

 spaces, called North Park and South Park, are in Lin- 

 acre and in Hawthorne Road. 



The earliest church in Bootle was St. Mary's, in 

 connexion with the Establishment, consecrated in 



1827. The advowson, like that of Walton, was 

 afterwards acquired by the Leigh family. Christ 

 Church was built in 1866," and St. John's Church, 

 Balliol Road, about the same time ; 9 St. Leonard's, 

 Linacre, was built in 1889 ; and St. Matthew's, also 

 in Linacre, in 1887. The patronage of these 

 churches is vested in different bodies of trustees. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have several places of 

 worship. The church in Balliol Road was built in 

 1864, that in Linacre Road in 1900, and that in 

 Marsh Lane in 1903 ; they have also Wesley Hall, 

 in Sheridan Place. For Welsh-speaking members 

 there are churches in Trinity Road, built in 1877, 

 and in Knowsley Road. The Primitive Methodists 

 have a church in Queen's Road. 



The Baptist church in Stanley Road was built in 

 1 846. The Welsh church in Brasenose Road was 

 built in 1871, the work having begun in 1863, 

 that in Rhyl Street dates from 1884 ; and that in 

 Knowsley Road is the result of an effort made in 

 Seaforth in 1882. 



Emmanuel Congregational church, Balliol Road, 

 opened in 1876, represents a missionary work begun 

 in 1 87 1 in the Assembly Room. 10 For Welsh-speaking 

 Congregationalists there are two churches ; one re- 

 presents a movement by members of the Kirkdale 

 church in 1878-83, and the other is the result 



The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists have two places 

 of worship. 



Trinity Presbyterian church, built in 1887, is a 

 migration from Derby Road, Kirkdale, where a start 

 was made in 1855. Another church in Linacre was 

 erected in 1896, work having begun in 1883. 



There are a Church of Christ, near Bootle water- 

 works, and some other meeting-places. 



For Roman Catholics there are two churches. The 



Richard de Molyneux of Sefton in 

 1342 acquired land from Robert Boorde, 

 nephew and heir of Robert de Denton ; 

 Croxteth D. G. i, 1 1. Two yea 



was at the special request of Sir Alexande 

 Osbaldeston ; ibid. n. 685. 



The Moores afterwards acquired othe 

 parcels, but in 1604 the tenure was stil 



sold to Robert Blundell of Ince and his 

 son John the lands in Linacre then held 

 by Brian Burton, but previously the in- 

 heritance of ohn Longworth, deceased. 



