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WavertreeWavertree is an area of Liverpool. Introduction Wavertree is around 30 minutes walk from Liverpool City Centre. The area is highly populated by students of Liverpool's 3 universities especially the Smithdown Road area. Smithdown Road is famous for "The Smithdown Ten" pubcrawl even though there are only nine pubs now. History The earlest settlement of Wavertree is attested to by the discovery of Bronze Age burial urns in Victoria park. The Doomsday Book reference is "Leving held Wauretreu.There are 2 carucates of land. It was worth 64 pence". In the past the name has been spelt Watry, Wartre,Waurtree and Wavertree, locals however referred to it as Wa'tree, until the 19th century. The meaning of the name is various described as 'a wavering tree', 'a cleaing in a wood' or 'the place by the common pond'. Wavertree was part of the parish of Childwall in the West Derby hundred. A Town Hall was built in 1872 to house the local health board. The motto on the town hall is "sub umbra floresco" or "I flourish in the shade". The town hall is now a Pub. In 1895 the Village of Wavertree was incorporated into the city of Liverpool. External link - http://www.tsk.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/htw/about/history/history.htm
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