West Derby
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West Derby is a well-to-do and popular suburb of Liverpool, England, that achieved significance far earlier than Liverpool itself. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, its name comes from a Viking word meaning "place of the wild beasts" and named an administrative area called the West Derby hundred, or West Derbyshire, that covered a large part of Lancashire.
West Derby was home to the Lords of Sefton (family name Molyneaux), whose house Croxteth Hall and the surrounding countryside estate now forms Croxteth Park, an attractive public space. The former UK soap opera Brookside was filmed on a housing estate built on some of Lord Sefton's estate.
West Derby once had a castle, now completely disappeared, but still retains a courthouse built under Queen Elizabeth I, but the first court in West Derby was established around 1,000 years ago.Template:UK-geo-stub