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  Croxteth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, on Merseyside.
The suburb is adjacent to Croxteth Hall, the former home of the Earl of Sefton, and close to West Derby, another suburb that predates Liverpool, being recorded in the Domesday Book.
The first tranche of housing in Croxteth was built to rehouse families from the Scotland Road area of the City that was subject to mass demolition during the contruction of the second Mersey Tunnel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croxteth   (332 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool - Local History - Mersey Times - Blackmoor Park School - Croxteth Country Park
"Croxteth Hall Country Park is at the heart of what was once a great country estate stretching hundred of miles and was the home of the Molyneux family - the Earls of Sefton.
A group of youngsters bird watching in Croxteth Park with Richard Attenborough, c.
The park is 5 miles from Liverpool city centre.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/localhistory/mersey_times/issue_05/croxteth_hall/park.shtml   (188 words)

  
 Regia Anglorum - Croxteth 2005
The park is situated just outside Liverpool, in gorgeous grounds with a large mansion and a farm containing animals from our period.
Croxteth Park is not far from the centre of Liverpool and has all the expect facilities within walking distance.
Croxteth Park is in the outskirts of Liverpool.
www.regia.org /reenact/croxteth2005.htm   (742 words)

  
 Croxteth Country Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With its classic Victorian walled garden, home farm, and beautifully groomed gardens and surroundings a visit to Croxteth is a wonderful summer's day out for all the family.
Today the park is the biggest in Merseyside and receives over 700,000 visitors each year.
The park is home to some 1,200 animal species, which makes it a must visit for the wildlife lovers out there.
www.merseysidetoday.co.uk /attract/croxteth.php   (131 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Croxteth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Croxteth Hall is the former country estate of the Earl of Sefton, now managed by the Liverpool City Council.
Wayne Rooney playing for the England football team Wayne Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Manchester United and the England national football team as a striker.
The A580, East Lancashire Road universally known as the East Lancs Road was built to to provide better access to the Port of Liverpool for East Lancashire and Manchester.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Croxteth   (590 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Centuries ago it was part of King John's deerhunting park, and was preserved by covenant as a public open space until in Victorian times it was landscaped with charming lakeside walks, dells full of exotic species of trees and shrubs, art nouveau statuary and rambling carriage drives between avenues of English trees.
The Park is surrounded by a roadway lined with flowering trees, just bursting into leaf and flower for the May Parade, presenting gorgeous photo opportunities.
Some way round the Park spectators will not be able to drive any further, so a good strategy will be to park up as you find space and take a pleasant walk across the Park.
www.btinternet.com /~mayhorses/geto.htm   (1066 words)

  
 UKPG Database | Sites | Croxteth Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pleasure grounds and park of 230ha, the form of which dates mainly from the early and mid C19, forming the setting for a country house.
It is also the site of a C14 deer park.
This page was last updated on 21 January 2002 and is from the U.K. Database of Historic Parks and Gardens.
www.york.ac.uk /depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/croxteth.htm   (66 words)

  
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Croxteth Country Park is swapping park life for Viking life to give pupils a taste of technology from more than 1,000 years ago.
Pupils from all over the city are visiting Croxteth County Park on a fact-finding mission as part of a module which ties in with the National Curriculum, Key Stage 2.
Martin O'Connor, Education Officer at Croxteth Park, said: "This is an excellent opportunity to travel back in time, and step into the fascinating world of the Vikings.
www.liverpool.gov.uk /News/newsdetail_0636.asp   (317 words)

  
 Gardensearch Directory > Gardens to Visit, Lancashire,  UK
Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, the park was the first publicly funded park in Britain.
The ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton, this grand mansion is surrounded by 500 acres of grounds and parkland which include a Victorian walled garden.
Court Hey Park covers 35 acres and is the home of this conservation centre for wild flowers.
www.gardensearch.co.uk /gardens/north_lancashire.htm   (417 words)

  
 Merseyside and Liverpool Parks and Gardens - Travel, tourism, events and culture
The park is surrounded by a roadway lined with flowering trees and interlaced with rambling carriage drives in keeping with its Victorian design.
Millbrook Park Millennium Green is an expansive area of public open space that provides an impressive backdrop to St. Chads Church.
The Park has a definite 'countryside feel', with Kirkby Brook running through the middle of the site and trees bordering the fringes.
www.merseyguide.co.uk /parks_page.htm   (770 words)

  
 Timbo's Liverpool - West Derby Village
A path adjacent St Mary's Church leads to Croxteth Hall, an 18th Century Mansion, which was given to Merseyside County Council in 1974 by the late Lady Sefton.
It was opened to the public in 1976 and, along with its large 500 acre country park, is one of the most popular attractions in the City.
The park is certainly a popular attraction to birds with over 130 different species recorded in the area in the last 20 years.
www.timbosliverpool.co.uk /villages/wdv   (709 words)

  
 Prehistoric Merseyside - Croxteth Park
In 1992 it was learnt that a prehistoric site, 6000 or 7000 years old on farmland in Croxteth Park was to be destroyed for a housing development.
The camp lies in the valley of the Croxteth Brook.
The pollen shows that Croxteth Park was surrounded by dense woodland, including oak, alder, hazel and elm trees.
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /liverpoollife/archaeology/fieldarchaeology/prehistmrsycrox.asp   (415 words)

  
 Croxteth Country Park - Review - WELL IMPROVED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I live not to far from Croxteth Country Park and I visited the park for the first time in a while and was pleasantly surprised at how it had changed.
The road into the park had been relaid and there was plenty of parking space.
The walk upto the house was a pleasure its was very quiet considering the amount of traffic that uses the roads surrounding the park.
www.ciao.co.uk /Croxteth_Country_Park__Review_66477   (278 words)

  
 icLiverpool - Music to sparkle in park display   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
CROXTETH Country Park is to be illuminated by a firework extravaganza as it plays host to an open-air concert later this month - the first of its kind at the venue.
The event, on June 29, will be set against a backdrop of the Edwardian hall and its 500-acre park, and ends with a breathtaking fireworks finale which will light up the Merseyside sky.
Concert-goers are invited to bring along their own food and bubbly for a picnic in the park.
icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk /0300whatson/0800events/content_objectid=13039216_method=full_siteid=50061_headline=-Music-to-sparkle-in-park-display-name_page.html   (493 words)

  
 John Davies
Passing the house frontage dominated by a militaristic mural the pace quickens: I have left the ageing dog-walkers behind and suddenly all is youthful activity.
I discover that Croxteth Hall is a base for Myerscough College, which offers courses in subjects including agriculture, countryside studies, animal studies, creative design, landscape studies, sport and recreation, horticulture, street cleansing, mechanisation, sportsturf and arboriculture; part time or full time, from entry to advanced level.
At the corner of Deysbrook Lane and Croxteth Hall Lane, signs of regeneration, needed and in place: a large hoarding advertising social housing providers Berrybridge, to whom more than 2,400 Liverpool City council homes have been transferred following a successful stock transfer ballot with tenants in 2002, their website says.
www.johndavies.org /parish_walks/parish-walks-8-everyday-en.html   (1296 words)

  
 Listed buildings in Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
April 14, 1975 II Croxteth Park L12 Row of cottages to east side of stable yard
April 14, 1975 II Croxteth Park L12 Kennels
April 14, 1975 II Croxteth Park L12 Fin14.03.75
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Liverpool   (9265 words)

  
 The Local Government Reorganisation (Croxteth Hall and Park) Order 1989   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The text of this Internet version of the Statutory Instrument which is published by the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament has been prepared to reflect the text as it was Made.
Property interests and associated rights and liabilities are transferred on 1st April 1989, together with £3 millions which the City Council is required to credit to the Croxteth Hall and Country Park Trust Fund.
The Local Government Reorganisation (Croxteth Hall and Park) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/573), which vested the Hall and Park in the Residuary Body, is revoked.
www.hmso.gov.uk /si/si1989/Uksi_19890224_en_1.htm   (682 words)

  
 Croxteth Hall & Country Park - Visit Liverpool Croxteth Hall & Country Park
Croxteth Hall and Country Park - Visit Liverpool Croxteth Hall & Country Park
Croxteth Hall Country Park is at the heart of what was once a great country estate stretching hundreds of square miles and was the ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton.
Croxteth hall is located at the end of this road.
www.visitliverpool.com /displayProduct.asp?productKey=7413   (260 words)

  
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Croxteth Country Park is hosting a fun day for dogs and their owners on Sunday, September 8 to promote responsible dog ownership.
And for those who with extra energy the sponsored dog walk around the park should do the trick as well as giving people a chance to see the beautiful landscape of the Park.
Irene Vickers, Hall Manager, said: "We are bringing a fantastic day of fun to Croxteth Park and a great day out for dog owners.
www.liverpool.gov.uk /News/newsdetail_0007.asp   (349 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Croxteth Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England.
Much of the original estate has since been sold off for development, but approximately 500 acres (2 km²) remain as a country park, which is open to the public.
The estate also contains the historic Hall itself, as well as a maintained Victorian walled garden and a working country farm.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Croxteth-Hall   (297 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: West Derby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mentioned in the Domesday Book, its name comes from a Viking word meaning "place of the wild beasts" and named an administrative area called the West Derby hundred, or West Derbyshire, that covered a large part of Lancashire.
West Derby was home to the Lords of Sefton (family name Molyneaux), whose house Croxteth Hall and the surrounding countryside estate now forms Croxteth Park, an attractive public space.
The former UK soap opera Brookside was filmed on a housing estate built on some of Lord Sefton's estate.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/West-Derby   (191 words)

  
 Croxteth
Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney has lived in Croxteth from an early age.
From the East Lancs road passing Malpas Road to St. Swithens including the much talked about haunting of Gillmoss school Croxteth was one of the first "suburbs of Liverpool" Croxteth Park, a development, came many years later.
This United Kingdom location article is a stub.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Croxteth   (110 words)

  
 House of Commons - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions - Written ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Emmaus Primary School is situated in Croxteth Park on the north eastern edge of the city of Liverpool and comes under Liverpool LEA.
Croxteth Park is estimated to be one of the biggest private housing estates in Western Europe.
This estate is built on land which once formed part of the estate of the Earls of Sefton at Croxteth Hall.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmodpm/45/45we25.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Liverpool - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In addition to the money being invested in the city centre, a tram system is being developed, which will hopefully complement the city's train and bus services.
Liverpool has two Premier division football clubs - Liverpool F.C. at Anfield and Everton F.C. at Goodison Park.
Over the water at Tranmere are Tranmere Rovers F.C. In London and elsewhere Liverpudlians are sometimes known as "Mickey Mousers" (from Cockney rhyming slang Scouse - Mickey Mouse).
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /liverpool.htm   (2232 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool - Local History - Mersey Times - Blackmoor Park School - Croxteth Park - Memories of trips to the park
BBC - Liverpool - Local History - Mersey Times - Blackmoor Park School - Croxteth Park - Memories of trips to the park
I remember when we went to Croxteth Hall...
"When I went to Croxteth Park with my old school.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/localhistory/mersey_times/issue_05/croxteth_hall/trip_memory.shtml   (270 words)

  
 icLiverpool - A friendly invasion at city park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A CANVAS city will be pitched in Croxteth park this weekend as thousands flock to the biggest volunteering event in the country.
He got involved in Merseyfest through his local church and is making a sponsored bungee jump in Croxteth park on Saturday to raise money for the festival.
Sam will be spending the week helping out at the charity's office and working on the sound and lighting for bands playing at the end-of-festival party in Croxteth park.
icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=15841703&method=full&siteid=50061&headline=a-friendly-invasion-at-city-park-name_page.html   (452 words)

  
 index.htm
Historic Croxteth Hall is at the heart of what was once a great country estate stretching over hundreds of square miles and was the ancestral home of the Molyneux family,
Since then it has undergone a major programme of development and is managed as Croxteth Hall and Country Park by The City of Liverpool Leisure Services Directorate and attracts thousands of visitors every year.
Today the 'Friends' have an association whose aim is to continue the good work thus helping to maintain and enhance what has been given to us to enjoy.
www.angelfire.com /my/croxtethFriends   (364 words)

  
 icLiverpool - Seven injured in park shootings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
SEVEN teenagers were injured last night in a series of shooting incidents in the Croxteth Country Park area.
The area, which has the Fir Tree bar and restaurant complex on one side, and a parade of shops on the other, was where police and forensic staff from the scientific support unit were concentrating their investigation.
Two of the casualties were taken by ambulance to the Royal Liverpool Hospital, while the others are believed to have made their own way to Fazakerley Hospital.
icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=15579039%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=seven%2dinjured%2din%2dpark%2dshootings-name_page.html   (413 words)

  
 Croxteth Hall and Country Park Liverpool England UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Croxteth Hall and Country Park Liverpool England UK Croxteth Hall and Country Park Liverpool UK, tourist attraction in Liverpool, Merseyside, UK Europe > UK > England > Merseyside > Liverpool > Croxteth Hall and Country Park
Should you wish to book accomodation near Croxteth Hall and Country Park you can check availability and rates online prior to booking.
We may have accomodation in Liverpool, but where none is available we include the nearest to the Croxteth Hall and Country Park.
www.where-can-i-find.com /UK_Attractions/Attractions/Croxteth_Hall_and_Country_Park.htm   (500 words)

  
 Croxteth Hall - country park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Country Park still has over 500 acres of pasture, gardens and woodland providing a rich tapestry of flora and fauna.
Education admission charges; the Country Park is free to visit (except for guided visits and printed resources).
Eleven species of tree are identified on a "Tree Trail" leaflet (30p from the gift shop), that also provides examples of leaf-shapes along with a brief description of each tree.
www.croxteth.co.uk /country_park.htm   (430 words)

  
 icLiverpool - Summer Holidays Croxteth Hall & Country Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Visitors to historic Croxteth Hall will find that they can really find out what it would have been like working in the kitchens, or as a butler or other servant in the Hall.
Croxteth staff and Heritage Volunteers in period costume invite you to have a go - a great way to sample life in the past.
The Country Park is part of the Mersey Forest.
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