Beaufort Street
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Early in its history this was called Bedford Street but after the first incorporation of the northern part of Toxteth into Liverpool, in 1835, when street names were changed, it became Beaufort Street. It ran from the Toxteth boundary at Parliament Street to Harlow Street at the far end of the Mersey Forge properties. This is one of the older parts of toxteth and it was developed soon after the control of the ancient park passed out of the hands of the Lords of Sefton in the late 18th Century.

In modern times the course of Beaufort Street has been severed in several places. The furthest points were never well defined and even in 1903 the Lavrock Bank photographs show it without tarmac. History has turned full circle since then and around the junction with Yates Street it has again ceased to be a road, instead being a scrappy section of grassed overland now called Millers Fields, presumably named in reference to the nearby flour mills. This name is found as far back as the 1966 trade directories for Beaufort Street.