Last Updated : 31 Aug 2009

At the time of the Domesday Survey, West Derby Hundred included, not just West Derby, but the whole of modern Liverpool, and beyond. It was the most populated part of a then very thinly populated county of Lancashire. The old hundred extended from the Mersey at Liverpool to the River Ribble in the north, followed the Mersey in the south and went as far east as to include Warrington and Leigh and to the border with adjoining Salford.

West Derby itself is now part of Liverpool 12 and is located about 5 miles east of the city centre. West Derby Village was added to the city in 1895.

West Derby once had a castle, now completely disappeared, but still retains a courthouse built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.