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Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, on Merseyside and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Although housing in the area is predominantly modern, the suburb has some notable history. The name is believed to derive from a contraction of 'Crocker's Staithe', or the landing place of Crocker, which is a likely reference to a Viking landing via the River Alt, which passes through Croxteth and at the time of the Viking invasion of Britain was navigable through the area. The similar root is also possible for Toxteth. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ...
Merseyside is a metropolitan county, located in the North West of England. ...
Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. ...
A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods...
The name Viking is a loanword from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. ...
This article is about the British river Alt. ...
Map sources for Toxteth at grid reference SJ355885 Huskisson Street, Liverpool Toxteth is an area of inner-city Liverpool, England, starting approximately a mile south from the city centre. ...
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 'Dog and Gun' Public House (closed, 2005) is a historic hostelry, likely associated with the hunt from Croxteth Hall. Croxteth Hall is the former country estate of the Earl of Sefton, now managed by the Liverpool City Council. ...
The title of Earl of Sefton was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1771. ...
Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ...
Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was similar to a census by a government of today. ...
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. Within the past twenty years very large areas of the Croxteth Hall estate and a City Council playing field have been sold for housing development to create a huge Housing Estate, noted for its lack of local amenities. Scotland Road or Scottie Road is situated aside the docks in the Vauxhall area of north Liverpool. ...
The Kingsway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey in Merseyside, northwest England, between Liverpool and Wallasey. ...
The area is serviced by three secondary schools (11-18); St. John Bosco (Catholic Girls), De La Salle (Catholic Boys) and Croxteth Community Comprehensive (State Mixed).
Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney has lived in Croxteth from an early age and attended De La Salle School. Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at Old Trafford Football Ground located just outside of the city boundaries of Manchester, Lancashire. ...
Wayne Mark Rooney (born October 24, 1985, Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is widely considered to be one of the leading young talents in world football - in September 2005 he was selected by his fellow professionals as the inaugural FIFPro World Young Player of the Year. ...
From the A580 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. 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. ...
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