This shows the whole of Toxteth Park as defined in the 1765 map of the Earl of Sefton, probably produced for the Enclosure Act.

Most of the roads still follow their marked courses today and the map displays a remarkable accuracy.

Parliament Street
Smithdown Road
Greenbank Road, Penny Lane, Ibbotsons Lane
Lodge Lane
Ullet Road
Park Road/ Aigburth Road

This stream rose around Lodge Lane and flowed past King John's hunting lodge, across Croxteth Road and into what is now Princes Park where it was used by Paxton to create the park lake.


Close to the lake it would have flowed through a broad shallow valley still clearly visible today close to the site of Park Nook and adjacent to Ullet Road.  

It then would have crossed Ullet Road at its lowest point and flowed on behind the houses on Alexandra Drive where it seems to have been joined by a small tributary itself fed by two or three small pools or ponds, visible in 1765.

It continued, crossing Aigburth Road (called Park Road before recent times) at Chetwyn Street / Dalmeny Street.  It then ran across St Michaels (behind the church) and into the Mersey where, in the 18th Century, one Mr Dickenson had his fishyard from which the stream took its name.

The lines of the stream have left their mark in the unusual winding diagonal course of Alexandra Drive, the diagonal running nature of adjacent streets such as Parkfield Road and various boundary lines, notably the land behind St Michaels Church, all of which can be used to trace the line of this stream which has long since been piped underground and turned into land drains.