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Wavertree is an area of Liverpool and a Liverpool City Council Ward . 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" Pub Crawl even though the number of pubs in business varies year to year. Wavertree also boasts a Village Lock-up that was once used to detain local drunks, and is now a Listed Building . HISTORY The earliest settlement of Wavertree is attested to by the discovery of Bronze Age burial urns in Victoria park. The Domesday Book reference is "Leving held Wauretreu.There are 2 Carucate s 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 variously described as 'a wavering tree', 'a clearing 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. Holy Trinity Church was built in 1794 and is situated on Church Road close to the famous Blue Coat School. SCHOOLS There are a number of both Primary and Senior Schools in this densely populated area of Liverpool. Wavertree C of E (Once called Holy Trinty and is associated with the Holy Trinity Church) is situated on Prince Alfred Road and has both infant and junior school. The Liverpool Blue Coat School is also situated in Wavertree, having been built originally in 1708 for fifty poor boys. It is currently a mixed grammar school. WAVERTREE PLAYGROUND "THE MYSTERY" See Also: Wavertree Playground ''The Mystery'' was one of the first purpose-built public playgrounds in the UK, opened in 1895. It is based on land donated to Liverpool Corporation by an anonymous donor, to be a venue for organised sports, and a place for children from the city's schools to run about in, not a park for 'promenading' in the Victorian tradition. The donor expressed the hope that the City Council "might approve of giving it a fair trial for this purpose ... before appropriating it for any other use". The land is currently home to a playground, Wavertree Athletics Centre, with many sports facilities including tennis courts, all weather pitch, bowling green and athletic track with grandstand. Liverpool Harriers & A.C. have based their headquarters at this centre since 1990. SOME NOTABLE RESIDENTS
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