Liverpool - West Derby
Found myself in a peachy suburb of West Derby, 20 minutes from the city centre on bus(y) Liverpool roads. Back in time, it has been far more of importance before even the Town itself emerged. Worth mentioning, the term 'derby' - in horse racing (races restricted to three-year-olds) - comes from the 12th Earl of Derby , who inaugurated the practice in 1780. He himself, his ancestors and descendants, lived in a nearby Croxteth Hall . Aintree's Grand National is few miles up north. First, I headed to the suggested Roman site on a Castlesite street but there is nothing there apart from a small public park: St Mary CoE church overlooking Castlesite What the little village centre has to offer - a short span of a street, named waywardly yet appropriately - West Derby Village - I was about to find out. More then Wikipedia says. An obelisque-like building of a church, a primary school: Meadow Lane Primary School Church? Chapel? Victorian water supply in
