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==Overview==

The earliest recorded reference to Childwall was in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' of 1086: "Four Radmans held Childwall as four [[Manorialism|Manors]]. There is half a [[Hide (unit)|hide]]. It was worth eight shillings. There was a priest, having half a [[carucate]] of land in [[Frankalmoin|frank almoign]]."<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.allsaints-childwall.org/html_two/ac/bhist_p1.htm|title=Brief History|publisher=All Saints Parish Church, Childwall|access-date=26 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070719141938/http://www.allsaints-childwall.org/html_two/ac/bhist_p1.htm|archive-date=19 July 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.childwall.info/ |title=The History of Childwall|first=Jonathon|last=Wild|access-date=23 January 2009}}</ref> Childwall was known as ''Cileuuelle'' in the 1086 ''[[Domesday Book]]'', meaning "a stream where youngsters meet" from the [[Old English]] words ''cild'' and ''wella''. Historically, the name has been recorded as ''Childewalle'' (1212 and 1332), ''Chaldewall'' (1238), ''Childwall'' (1261), ''Childewelle'' (1291), ''Chaldewal'' (1305), and ''Childewall'' (1354).<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41303|title=Townships: Childwall, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 |publisher=British History Online|year=1907|pages=108–111|access-date=6 February 2009}}</ref>

Childwall was traditionally part of the [[West Derby Hundred]]. It was an [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]] from the [[Local Government Act 1894]] until Liverpool annexed it in 1913.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10027317|title=Liverpool|publisher=A Vision Of Britain Through Time|access-date=26 March 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831062153/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp%3Bjsessionid%3D06E75550A4804D79E1E30D8BAF9130D5?u_id=10027317|archive-date=31 August 2012}}</ref> The suburb's [[All Saints' Church, Childwall|All Saints' Church]] is the oldest church in Liverpool. Though Childwall still maintains a large Jewish community, this has been in gradual decline since the 1980s, with some of the former Jewish community now living in the nearby suburbs of [[Allerton, Merseyside|Allerton]] and [[Gateacre]].