West Derby, Lancashire
Historical Description
West Derby, a parish mainly in the county borough of Liverpool, but partly in the administrative county of Lancaster. It is also one of the parliamentary divisions of Liverpool. The area of the portion in the municipal borough is 674 acres; population, 76,971; of the administrative or rural portion, 5529 acres; population, 37,702. The population of the parliamentary division is 76,971. The ecclesiastical parishes are Christ Church, Kensington (population, 7804), St John the Baptist, The Brook (7732), St Mary the Virgin (20,348), and St Nathaniel, Windsor (6192). The living of St Mary is a rectory; gross value, £1300.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | West Derby St. Mary | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | West Derby |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for West Derby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Derby, West (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of West Derby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: