DERBY (WEST), a chapelry in the parish of
WALTON-on-the-HILL, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (W.) from Prescot,
containing 6304 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £800 private benefaction, £200 royal
bounty, and £3000 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Rector of Walton. The chapel is dedicated
to St. Mary. West Derby is a very ancient
place, having given name to the hundred. At the period
of the Norman survey here was a decayed castle,
which had belonged to Edward the Confessor.