Detailed information on the various Points of Interest on the 7 Hills of Liverpool. The walks: 1. Walton Hill 2. Everton Ridge 3. The Toxteth Ridge 4. Mossley Hill and Sefton Park 5. Olive Mount and Wavertree Ridge 6. Childwall Hill 7. Woolton Ridge and Camp Hill The Choose Freedom project is wholly funded by Department for Transport through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund
[email protected] www.bikeright.co.uk/freedom Walk 1 - Walton Hill An ancient pagan community originally settled on the top of Walton Hill and, in due course, an Anglo-Saxon settlement was established here. They gave their home the name of Walton, which comes from the Saxon words ‘weald’ and ‘tun’, meaning a ‘walled settlement’. Walton is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, and it became the religious centre of the ‘Hundred of West Derby’. This term describes the geographical forerunner of a shire, and was an area that could raise an army of 100 fighting men in times of war. The Hundred covered an area than ran from West Derby itself, as far as Meols to the north of Southport, across through Ormskirk, and on to Wigan. It also stretched east to include Warrington, and south to the River Mersey. It also included the originally tiny community of Liverpool. The Choose Freedom project is wholly funded by Department for Transport through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund
[email protected] www.bikeright.co.uk/freedom Points of Interest 1 The Peoples’ Club Liverpool’s first, official, Football Club was Everton FC, which was originally attached to the local St Domingo Methodist Church, which once stood on Breckfield Road North.