EVERTON - the name may derive from "Hireton" which means higher town. In 1225 Everton tenants were allowed to cut wood in West Derby. A sandstone tower stood where St. George's church is - probably built in the time of the Armada scare. It collapsed in a storm in l803.

WALTON - The origin is not certain, possibly from the Anglo Saxon weall, which means a wall, or weald - wood. In Domesday, it was the largest township in the area, with West Derby as the "mother church". Stanley Park was laid out by Kemp, a co worker of the famous Joseph Paxton.

WEST DERBY - from "deor-by" - the place of wild beasts... The West was to distinguish it from Derby in the midlands. It was the administrative centre of S.W.Lancashire, the area between the Ribble and the Mersey known as the West Derby Hundred. A wooden castle was built soon after the Norman conquest, a few yards north of the present church.

WAVERTREE - on the site of the only important stone age and bronze age discovers, the Calderstones and the Olive Mount burial urns (l967). The Picton clock was ereceted in l880 by Sir James Picton in memory of his wife.

WOOLTON - Domesday mentions an active settlement called Ulventone in the Hundred of Wirral, and after the Norman conquest it came under the Barony of Widnes and Halton. In the 1100's, Woolton was granted to the Knights Hospitallers, who built Woolton Hall.

GARSTON - derives from the old English "gaerstun" - meadow or grazing farm. The earliest mention is at the end of the eleventh century when it was given by Roger de Poitivin to his sheriff. As far back as 1265, Garston was a fishing centre; a salt dock was built there about l793.