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Liverpool 'pool
The Story of an Isolated New Town and a Stolen Income...
In the 1200s Marco Polo, the famous traveller, set sail from Venice to meet Kublah Kahn in Beijing. At the same time Liverpool was a little hill sheltering our namesake pool gouged out from fast streams running down William Brown Street and St Johns lane to where the Queens Tunnel entrance is now!
King John created the new town in 1207 and invited settlers, who paid 12d. for each plot that also included one Cheshire acre in the town field and made quite a generous holding. King John also gave the town an income from rent and tolls to maintain itself. But in 1229 the next king, Henry III, sold the town to the Earl of Chester and the townspeople lost their income.
For the next 400 years they were too poor to expand until winning a dispute with the then town owner, Lord Molyneux in 1672.
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