Wavertree
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WAVERTREE, a village, a township, two chapelries, and a sub-district, in Childwall parish and West Derby district, Lancashire. The village stands 1½ mile SE of Edgehill r. station, and 3 ESE of Liverpool; has been much improved under a local board of health; is a place of resort for invalids; and has a post-office under Liverpool, a police station, public baths, and a reading room. The township comprises 1,796 acres. Real property, £36,743; of which £66 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 4,011; in 1861, 5,392. Houses, 910. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Salisbury. There are numerous good residences, two churches, a free church of 1869, two dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, two national schools, two large breweries, and an extensive ropery. The two chapelries are Holy Trinity and St. Mary; and the former is a p. curacy, the latter a rectory, in the diocese of Chester. Value of each, £300. Patron of the former, the Vicar of Childwall; of the latter, the Bishop of Chester. The sub-district contains 4 townships. Acres, 7,448. Pop. in 1851, 7,415; in 1861, 10,845. Houses, 1,792.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Liverpool library.Cemeteries
- St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill Road/Rose Lane, Church of England, Mossley Hill
- Holy Trinity, Church Road, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Wavertree.Church History
Church Records
- St Barnabas, Penny Lane, Church of England, Mossley Hill
- St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill Road/Rose Lane, Church of England, Mossley Hill
- Holy Trinity, Church Road, Church of England
- St Bridget, Bagot St, Church of England
- St Mary, Olive Vale, Church of England
- St Mary, Sandown Park, Church of England
- St Thomas, Ashfield, Church of England
- Hunter's Lane, Congregational
- Woolton Road, Presbyterian
- St Anthony of Padua, Queen's Drive, Roman Catholic, Mossley Hill
- Christ the King, Queens Drive, Roman Catholic
- Our Lady of Good Help, Chestnut Grove, Roman Catholic
- Our Lady of the Annunciation, Woolton Road, Roman Catholic
- St Hugh of Lincoln, Earle Rd, Roman Catholic
- Wesley, Victoria Park (Olive Vale), Wesleyan Methodist
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