Edge Lane and Ottiwell Wood

Edge Lane and Ottiwell Wood

From Memorials of Liverpool....second edition, revised, with additions.

Edge Lane is one of the original roads leading into Liverpool from the east. In 1769 the north side of the road was thinly sprinkled with houses between Vernon's Hall and Fairfield. The commodious-looking house opposite the end of Marmaduke Street (formerly Duke Street North) was for some years the residence of Mr. Ottiwell Wood, who built it in 1815. He was a gentleman who took an active part on the Liberal side in politics at a period long anterior to the Reform Act of 1832.

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