S&P L1-3 - Places (TOXTETH)
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- Toxteth
- Pre-industrial revolution
- Saxons established a settlement which was shown in the Domesday book 1086.
- King John took control in the 13th Century when it became a royal hunting forest and fenced off for 300 years.
- Opened up for farming at the end of the 16th Century.
- Small scale industry was a growing characteristic making use of water power from the dammed stream.
- Industrial revolution
- A more industrial and urban nature - forges, copper works (1772) and ceramics factory.
- The river bank became associated with ship building and associated industries.
- Residential developments grew with the industrial growth.
- Part of Toxteth was given over to greenfield for the growing middle class.
- 19th Century
- Very cheap and poorly constructed housing.
- Built back to back. Court dwellings.
- Typhoid and cholera were common.
- Terraced housing spread for families of dock and industry workers.
- Exodus of middle class as they relocated to greenfield sites.
- Over a period of 150 years, Toxteth had changed from small and rural to an inner city suburb.
- Very cheap and poorly constructed housing.
- Pre-industrial revolution
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