WAVERTREE, a chapelry in the parish of CHILDWALL,
hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Liverpool, containing
1620 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £200 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of certain Trustees. There is a well in the
neighbourhood, at which contributions were formerly
received by some monks j it bears a curious Latin inscription,
and the date 1414.