A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



holders mentioned were the heirs of Richard D.ivy.' 

 The recusant roll of 1641 groups the three Lither- 

 land townships with Aintrce, and records only six 

 names ; Henry Bootle was probably of this town- 

 ship.' In 1769 besides Lord Molyneux, the earl 

 of Derby, William Bolton, Richard Tristram, John 

 Wainwright, and others held small portions of the 

 land.' 



For members of the Established Church St. Philip's 

 was built in 1863.* Trustees have the patronage. 

 St. Mark's is a chapel of ease. St. Andrew's, origi- 

 nating in the same way, has now an independent 

 district ; the bishop of Liverpool is patron. 



There is a Wesleyan chapel in Litherland village. 



IVATERLOO stands on the margin of the Mersey 

 estuary, healthily situated, with a wide breezy pros- 

 pect, although the surface of the land could scarcely 

 be flatter. In this respect it is precisely like its 

 neighbours north and south. Nearly one-half of the 

 township is covered by the sea at high-water, for the 

 boundaries extend far into the estuary, whilst at 

 low tide there is a broad stretch of firm sands beyond 

 the houses and terraces which face the sea. The rest 

 of the land is occupied by the town of Waterloo, 

 which may be looked upon as an important residential 

 suburb of Liverpool, reached in a few minutes by the 

 electric railway. 



The hamlet of Crosby Sea-bank grew at the be- 

 ginning of last century into a ' flourishing sea-bath- 

 ing place.' * The Waterloo Hotel, traditionally said 

 to have been commenced on the day the famous battle 

 was fought, gave a distinctive name to the place.' 

 The first railway w.is that from Southport, opened in 

 184.8, the terminus being for a time at Waterloo ; 

 passengers were carried by coach to and from Liver- 

 pool.' The local government district of Waterloo- 

 with-Seaforth was formed out of Litherland in 1863,* 

 and in 1874 extended to include part of Great 

 Crosby.' In 1 894 the separate townships of Waterloo 

 and Seaforth were created and joined to make the 

 urban district of Waterloo-wlth-Seaforth.'° The coun- 

 cil has eighteen members. The Town Hall was built 

 in 1862. 



In connexion with the Established Church there 

 are Christ Church in the Litherland portion, built in 

 1839, several times enlarged, and rebuilt in 1 892 ; " 

 St. John's Church in the Great Crosby portion, built 

 in 1865 ;" and St. iM.iry's Church, built in 1S77, and 



consecrated in 1886. The patronage of these churches 

 is vested in different bodies of trustees. 



The English Presbyterian church of St. Andrew 

 was built in 1876, a congregation having been 

 gathered about three years earlier. There are a 

 Wesleyan church and .i temporary Baptist chapel. 

 The Congregational church, opened in 1866, is the 

 result of services begun in 185 5 by the Rev. T. Sleigh, 

 formerly of Wavertree." The Salvation Army has 

 barracks in East Street. 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Thomas of 

 Canterbury, on the Litherland side of the boundary, 

 was opened in August 1877 ; a temporary chapel 

 had been used from 1868." 



SEJFORTH township was formed in 1 894 from 

 Litherland, and joined with Waterloo to form an 

 urban district." The two occupy the whole river 

 frontage of Litherland and part of that of Great 

 Crosby. The name is derived from Seaforth House, 

 which Sir John Gladstone built about 181 5. When 

 the tide is low a broad stretch of sands is uncovered 

 and forms a favourite recreation ground of the inhabi- 

 tants of Liverpool, since these sands are on the north 

 side the nearest to the city, approached easily by the 

 overhead electric railway. The rest of the township 

 is thickly populated. The streets are level on a 

 sandy soil, the town being built upon land once occu- 

 pied by sandhills. 



There are large barracks at Seaforth. 



The shore has been secured by the Mersey Dock 

 Board. 



The Established Church had the first place of wor- 

 ship here, St. Thomas's, built in 1 8 i 5 by Sir John 

 Gladstone, and recently enlarged. The Rev. S. E. 

 Gladstone is patron . 



The Congregationalists have a school-chapel, built 

 in i8Si on a portion of the Seaforth House site ; 

 the mission owes its origin to the Congregational 

 church at Waterloo, having been commenced in 

 1878.'° 



The Roman Catholic church of Our Lady Star of 

 the Sea was opened in 1901 ; the mission was founded 

 in 1884, a stable being converted into a chapel ; a 

 school-chapel was opened in 1 890. Seafield House, 

 originally intended for a hydropathic establishment, 

 became a convent of the sisters of the Sacred Heart of 

 M.ir)-, and was used for training pupil teachers." It 

 has now been purchased by the Dock Board. 



Corker, son of Hugh, had land here in 

 1 i;o6 i Moore D. n. 698, -00, -09, 



7"- 



In the following year he sold his lands 



to William Moore ; ihcy included parts 



of Orgreaves, South Holmes, Crosby Styes, 



*a broddoU of meadow' in the Broad 



Mead, and others; ibid. n. 713, 715. 



The latter deed names William Corker 



of Woolton. 



About the same time (l 50--8) William 

 Moore purchased a * Koktreland,' the Er- 

 ling Hawes, and other plots from William 

 Rose ; ibid. n. 714. Edward Moore in 

 1627 purchased from Edward Alcock of 

 Great Crosby the former inheritance of 

 John Johnson,; ibid. n. -24. 



iNorris D. (B.M.) In 1506 Wil- 

 liam Davy enfeoffed Richard Crosse and 

 Hugh Rainford of all his tenements in 

 Litherland and Ford ; Crosse D. n. 

 .69. 



* Tram. Hist. Soc, [Sew Ser.), xiv, 

 237. 



' Map at Croxteth, Lord Derby's 



estate probably represents that of the 

 Moores. 



■* A district was assigned to it in 1871; 

 LoniJ. Gj-z, 4 July. 



* Baines, Dir, 1825, ii, 710. The 

 place is not called Waterloo in Lewis' 

 Gd'z. of 1844 5 but this name had become 

 established by 1830, when a short descrip- 

 tion was printed in Whittle's Marina^ 

 126. 



^ * Waterloo Hotel ' is marked on 

 Greenwood's map of 1818. It is now 

 called the Royal Hotel. In 1824 there 

 was a coach from this hotel to Liverpool 

 at nine in the morning, returning at six 

 in the evening, and the Lancashire Witch 

 packet plied thrice a day, by the Leeds 

 Canal, between Crosby and Liverpool. 

 The hotel stands on the shore at the 

 extreme south-west comer of Crosby, and 

 the hamlet which has grown into the 

 present town of Waterloo was partly in 

 Great Crosby and partly In Litherland. 



" Bland, Southport, 109. 



'' Lond. Gaz. 24 April, 1863. 



9 37 & 38 Vict. cap. 19. 

 10 Loc. Gov. Bd. Order, 31 614. The 

 township of Waterloo is that part of 

 Waterloo-with-Scaforth in Great Crosby. 

 The area for the census of 1901 was 546 

 acres including two of inland water ; but 

 this included part of Brighton le Sands. 

 The foreshore is 265 acres. 



1^ The Ven. John Jones, M.A., arch- 

 deacon of Liverpool, was incumbent from 

 1850 to 1889 J he had previously, from 

 1815 to 1850, been incumbent of St. 

 Andrew's, Liverpool. 



^^ Lond. Gaz. 26 Oct. 1877, for dis- 

 trict. 



^ Nightingale, La««. Nonconf. vi, 219. 



^^ hi'uerpQol Catb, Ann. 1901. 



'^ Loc. Gov. Bd. Order, 31614. Sea- 

 forth is the portion of Waterloo- with- 

 Seaforth lying within Litherland. The 

 area is 406 acres according to the Census 

 Rep. 1901 ; in addition there are 291 

 acres of foreshore, 



"^^ Lanes. Nonconf. vi, 220. 



^^ Liverpool Catb, Ann. 1901. 



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