ALLERTON, a township in the parish of CHILDWALL,
hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 8 miles (S.E.) from Liverpool, containing
328 inhabitants. Adjoining the farm on which stands
the famous Allerton Oak there is a supposed Druidical
monument, called Calder Stones, in digging around
which, about sixty years ago, urns of the coarsest clay,
containing human bones, were found.