Fazakerley, Lancashire
Historical Description
Fazakerley, a township in Walton-on-the-Hill parish, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & Y.R., 5½ miles NE of Liverpool. Post town, Liverpool. Acreage, 1709; population, 1251. The Everton Cemetery, 54 acres in extent, is in this township; also the West Derby Union Cottage Homes, erected in 1888-89, and a sewage farm belonging to the West Derby Local Board.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Walton | |
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 Fazakerley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fazakerley)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Fazakerley 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: