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PLACENAME: Rabil (first mentioned 1086 in the Domesday Book). Landmark or boundary line, relating to its position on the border of Childwall. From Old Scandinavian rä. Rabi (1185); Raby (1238).

old photo of Roby Hall

The National Wildflower Centre is housed within Court Hey (1836) which was originally a manor house.

Pictured above is another manor house from the era, Roby Hall. Photograph courtesy of Knowsley Libraries.

illustration of arrow head

Carr Lane is now a footpath but may have been a Medieval roadway leading from the village to the 'carr' or common land where anyone could graze their animals.

Evidence of even earlier settlement is this Neolithic tanged and barbed arrowhead, found in 1925.

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