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Otterspool railway station
Otterspool station was a railway station in Liverpool, England. It was located between St Michaels and Aigburth stations on the Garston and Liverpool Railway. The station was built on the site of the house in which the astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks was born in about 1618. The station opened in 1864 and was absorbed into the Cheshire Lines Committee in 1865. It closed in 1951 due to low passenger numbers. The station was at the end of a long and otherwise empty dirt lane which runs alongside Otterspool Park from Jericho Lane. The lane and the station building still exist, but the main building is now a private dwelling, with a subsidiary building beside it lying derelict. Whatever may remain of the platforms cannot be seen under vegetation.
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River Jordan, Liverpool
The River Jordan, Little Jordan or Otterspool Brook is a tributary of the River Mersey. It has now been culverted for most of the lower part of its course, which runs through Otterspool Park in Aigburth, Liverpool.
The river had two tributaries, the Upper and Lower Brooks. The Upper Brook rose near the playing fields in Wavertree, flowing past, and inspiring the name of, the Brook House pub. The Lower Brook had a source in Wavertree Botanic Gardens, where it rose in two ponds near Edge Lane; both branches joined in present-day Sefton Park before flowing through a series of natural cascades into the Otterspool, a creek on the Mersey shore. The watercourse was recorded in the 13th century Chartulary of Whalley Abbey as the "Oskelesbrok", when it was described as forming the boundary of Toxteth, and flowing into "Oterpol".
The name, also written as "Haskelesbroc" and "Hoskellesbrok" in the period, may contain a reference to the Old Norse personal name Askell.
The brook later gained the name of the "River Jordan", probably during the 17th century when Toxteth Park was disparked and let as farmland. The first tenants were Puritan in religion and this has been suggested as the origin of the name "Jordan", as well as that of a nearby farm called "Jericho" and a rock called "David's Throne". Otterspool itself was one of the most important of the Mersey fisheries well into the 18th century, and was reputed to be the finest salmon fishery in the area.
The course of the river was changed radically in the 19th century, when housing developments and parks were laid out and much of the watercourse was incorporated into a series of ornamental water features. The Upper Brook was dammed in Greenbank Park to form a lake, and both it and the Lower Brook were channelled into the Boating Lake in Sefton Park. Below this point, the river is currently visible near the gates of Otterspool Park but has been culverted from that point, though many features of its valley are still visible in the park. The area of the river mouth is now part of the Otterspool Promenade, where the river's flow is now piped to the Mersey.
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South Liverpool F.C. (1890s)
South Liverpool F.C. was a football club from Liverpool, England. The club's colours were white shirts, black shorts and red socks. The club relocated and became New Brighton A.F.C. in 1921. In 1935 a phoenix club was established South Liverpool F.C. (1935).
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Liverpool Feds W.F.C.
Liverpool Feds Women's Football Club is an English women's association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. The first team currently plays in the FA Women's National League North and during the 2019–20 season the reserve team play in North West Women's Regional Football League Division One South. Beginning with the 2025-26 season, they play their home games at Walton Hall Park (stadium).
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South Liverpool F.C.
South Liverpool Football Club is a football club based in Aigburth, Liverpool, England, founded as a phoenix club of a club of the same name. It is currently a member of the North West Counties League Premier Division; the team plays at Jericho Lane in the Otterspool area of Aigburth. The club's colours are white shirts, black shorts, and red socks.
The First Team play on the Stadium Pitch at the Jericho Lane Sports Hub which is where the First Team are affiliated. The Reserves and Third Teams also play on this pitch intermittently but also use the second pitch or its home of many years, The North Field, on Jericho Lane, which the club still operates.
The club has around 35 teams under its South Liverpool FC Banner, ranging from Open Age through to Vets Teams, Reserves Youth Teams and Juniors. It has close ties with Liverpool Feds FC who they work closely with to develop Women and Girls players.
A large number of the club's Committee have been with the club for many years and the club remains very familiar to those who have played for it. The Clubs Chairman is Gary Langley who is also a Director of the North West Counties League.
The club has an active supporters club which works closely with the football club to generate awareness and funds for club operations. It is considered one of the largest supporters Clubs in the NWCFL.
It’s Fanzine “The Fanzine with no name” is also a candidate for the longest continuously running Fanzine in non-league.