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| | Mike Royden's Local History Pages |
 | | The future royal borough of Liverpool at the same time, was a mere farming settlement based around a small, tidal creek of the river Mersey, known locally as the "liver" or "lever" pool, considered so insignificant it wasn't even mentioned by name in the Doomsday survey of 1086. |
 | | The chief manor of the hundred, West Derby itself, was held as a royal manor, and contained a probable fortified manor house, a royal hunting lodge, as West Derby was a hunting ground of the Saxon kings, three aeries of hawks and extensive woodlands. |
 | | The estate of the manor, the forest and the castle gave to West Derby, an importance as a centre of administration in the southern part of Lancashire, and of status, equal to that of Lancaster, the nominal capital of the county, in the northern half of the county. |
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