Editing Lunt (section)

==History==
The name derives from either the [[Old Norse]] word ''Lundr'' or the [[Old Swedish]] word ''lunder'', both meaning "grove" or "copse". This was likely a reference to the remnants of a large ancient [[forest]] that existed in the area at the time the settlement was founded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lunt-village.co.uk/home/index.htm|title=Lunt: A place with a name, a name with a history|work=A. Farthing|year=1995 |accessdate=16 November 2007 }}</ref> The town was first documented in 1251 in the Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey, where it was referred to as "de Lund".<ref name=BBC>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7338151.stm|title=Graffiti village name change plan|work=BBC|date=2008-04-09|accessdate=2008-04-09}}</ref> However, earlier settlement have been discovered through recent archaeological excavations at Lunt Meadows which were commissioned and funded by the Environment Agency, supported by National Museums Liverpool ahead of the transformation of farmland in the Alt valley, Sefton into a wetland reserve and flood alleviation scheme. These excavations found settlement buildings dating back to the [[Mesolithic]] period (5800 BC) when the inhabitants were still living as hunter-gatherers<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/archaeology/projects/lunt-meadows/|title=Museum of Liverpool excavation project|work=Museum of Liverpool|date=2015-08-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-20344575/mesolithic-man-find-could-rewrite-stone-age-history|title=Mesolithic man find could rewrite Stone Age history|work=BBC|date=2012-11-19}}</ref>