| Croxteth | |
  Croxteth shown within Merseyside |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan borough | Liverpool |
| Metropolitan county | Merseyside |
| Region | North West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LIVERPOOL |
| Postcode district | L11 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Merseyside |
| Fire | Merseyside |
| Ambulance | North West |
| European Parliament | North West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Merseyside | |
Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The districts of England are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are one of the four levels of Subdivisions of England used for the purposes of Local government outside Greater London Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 The region, also known as the government office region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England, with only one North West England is one of the nine official Regions of England. Constituent country is a phrase used often by official institutions in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger entity or grouping England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This list of sovereign states, alphabetically arranged gives an overview of States around the world with information on the extent of their Sovereignty. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system UK Postal codes are known as postcodes. UK postcodes are Alphanumeric. The L postcode area, also known as the Liverpool postcode area, is a group of postal districts in Merseyside and Lancashire, specifically around Bootle The UK Telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning Telephone numbers in the United There are a number of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. Merseyside Police is the Home Office Police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The fire service in the United Kingdom operates under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and The Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering the county of Merseyside in north-west England and is The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1 July 2006 as part of Health Minister Lord Warner's plans to reduce the number of NHS North West England is a Constituency of the European Parliament. A Gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's County, Unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates List of places --> List of cities in the United Kingdom List of towns in England Lists of places This is a list of cities, Towns and Villages in the ceremonial county of Merseyside, England. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland See City of Liverpool for other meanings Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside In Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, a ward is an Electoral district Although housing in the area is predominantly modern, the suburb has some notable history. It is known locally as "Crocky".
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Description
Croxteth is in the L11 postcode which is also the same postcode for neighbouring Norris Green and Gillmoss. Norris Green is a large Housing estate and council ward in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Gillmoss is an area in north Liverpool located between Croxteth, Fazakerley and Kirkby. Other area's surrounding Croxteth include Fazakerley and Kirkby. Fazakerley (fæzækəli is a suburb of north Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Kirkby ( IPA /ˈkɝbiː/ — the second "k" is silent is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley on Merseyside in England
The area is serviced by three secondary schools (11-18); St. A comprehensive school is a Secondary school and State school for children from the age of 11 to at least 16 that does not select children on the basis of academic John Bosco (Catholic Girls), De La Salle (Catholic Boys) and Croxteth Community Comprehensive (Mixed).
In recent years Croxteth has become synonymous with gang violence, as reported in local[1] and national[2] press. Indeed, Merseyside police's Staysafe campaign[3] was in response to anti-social behaviour and gang violence in Croxteth as well as neighbouring Norris Green and Clubmoor. Clubmoor is a district in the City of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward.
In January 2008, Shelagh Fogarty, a BBC Radio Five Live presenter from Liverpool had a gun pointed at her whilst filming a TV documentary in Croxteth. Shelagh Fogarty (born 1966 is a Liverpool -born Radio and Television presenter and Journalist. [4]
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. A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas The River Alt is in Merseyside, England. The Alt runs from Hag Plantation in Huyton at 125ft (40m through Croxteth Park, roughly The similar root is also possible for Toxteth. Toxteth is an Inner-city area of Liverpool, England. It is located to the south of the city bordered by Liverpool city centre Edge Hill
Prehistoric tools were found on a site in Croxteth in 1992, though there were no signs of any permanent settlement. Since then the land has been developed. [5]
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. Croxteth Hall is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family the Earls of Sefton. The title Earl of Sefton was created in the Peerage of Ireland in1771 for the 8th Viscount Molyneux, and the once Aristocratic Molyneux West Derby is a suburb in the north of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey The "Dog and Gun" Public House (closed, 2005) is a historic hostelry, likely associated with the hunt from Croxteth Hall.
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 construction of the second Mersey Tunnel. Scotland Road or "Scottie Road" is the A59 and is situated near the docks in the Vauxhall area of north Liverpool, England. The Kingsway Tunnel is a road Tunnel under the River Mersey in Merseyside, northwest England, between Liverpool and Wallasey 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. A housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development
From the A580 road (the Liverpool-East Lancashire Road, abbreviated to and known commonly as East Lancs Road) passing Malpas Road to St. The A580 is a primary A road in England that connects Manchester and Liverpool or the Liverpool-East Lancashire Road Swithens including the much talked about haunting of Gillmoss School Croxteth was one of the first "suburbs of Liverpool". Croxteth Park, a development area, came many years later.
The first houses in the Croxteth estate were in fact built in the immediate postwar period to house skilled workers from Slough and Rugby who had been brought in to the English Electric and Napier factories on the East Lancs Road), and families from the dock area wards who had lost their homes through bombing and slum demolition. Slough ( ˈslaʊ is a Borough and Unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. Rugby is a Market town in Warwickshire, in the West Midlands of England, on the River Avon. The second tunnel came much later. The first families arrived in 1951 to live in an estate that was without roads, pavements, shops, pubs or buses. However, in the wake of World War II during the late 1940s and early 1950s, massive residential extensions at Croxteth, alongside similar and indistinguishable development of neighbouring Norris Green, resulted in what together, are now regarded as the largest municipal housing estate in Europe. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
Croxteth Park (Estate)
The Croxteth Park estate is a large residential suburb of Liverpool. It is in the L12 postal code and was built on the edge of Croxteth Country Park.
On 22 August 2007 an 11-year-old boy, Rhys Jones, was fatally shot in the car park of the Fir Tree public house. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [6] on the Croxteth Park Estate. The shooting has not yet been directly attributed to gang violence. For more information on this crime, please see Murder of Rhys Jones
Notable residents
Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney and his future wife Coleen McLoughlin both grew up and met there, Sheffield Wednesday footballer Francis Jeffers also lived in Croxteth from an early age. The murder of Rhys Milford Jones (born September 27, 1995) occurred on 22 August 2007 in Liverpool, England, when he was Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985 in Croxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English footballer who currently plays for English Premier Coleen Rooney (née McLoughlin born 3 April, 1986) in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is the Wife of Manchester United Francis Jeffers (born 25 January 1981 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English footballer, currently playing for Sheffield Wednesday Both footballers attended De La Salle School. For the school of the same name in Basildon see De La Salle School.
References
- ^ Quick, quick, give us the phone, I’ll get the boys up here to pop them.... Liverpool Echo newspaper (12 June 2007). Retrieved 23 August 2007
- ^ Under Yob Rule. The People newspaper (3 September 2007). Retrieved 23 August 2007
- ^ Staysafe Initiative. Merseyside Police. Retrieved 23 August 2007
- ^ Gun aimed at BBC radio presenter. BBC News (28 January 2008). Retrieved 28 January 2008
- ^ "Prehistoric Liverpool", Liverpool Museum
- ^ Boy, 11, dies after pub shooting. BBC News (23 August 2007). Retrieved 23 August 2007
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