A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of Speke to celebrate for the souls of himself and 

 his ancestors. 1 



The church, according to an old rhyme, was 

 famous for ' ringing and singing.' ' 



CHILDWALL 



Cildeuuelle.Dm.BL; Childwall,i26i ; Childewelle, 

 1291 ; Childewalle, 1212, 1332 ; Childewall, 1354 

 and onwards (common form) ; also Chaldewall, 1238; 

 Chaldewal, 1 305. The terminations ' wall ' and 'well ' 

 appear indifferently. Childow is the local pronuncia- 



As to the charities of the parish, 

 CHARITIES Bishop Gastrell was in 1718 able to 



report little in addition to the schools The township of Childwall, containing 831 acres, 10 is 



at Much Woolton and Hale. s The commissioners of principally situated on the slope of a low hill, the highest 



28 gave a much longer list, 4 but even in 1903 the 

 amount for the parish as a whole was very small ; 5 

 Hale 6 and Halewood ' had some considerable bequests, 

 but the charity founded recently by Mrs. Mary Jane 

 Cross for the relief of poor residents of Much and 

 Little Woolton suffering from accidents and non- 

 infectious diseases is the most important from its 



pont of which is 223 ft. above sea -level, commanding 

 an extensive panorama of a wide, flat plain lying to 

 the east. The district has an agreeable park-like 

 appearance, with plantations and pastures, diversified 

 with cultivated fields, where crops of corn, turnips, 

 and potatoes are raised. There are but few dwellings, 

 besides the hall and the houses which cluster about 



funds of the kind. 9 



The other townships have little or no the church. The geological formation consists of the 



