Editing Toxteth (section)

==Description==
The district lies within the borders of the ancient township of Toxteth Park.<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of the Royal and Ancient Park of Toxteth|first=Robert|last=Griffiths|publisher=Liverpool Libraries & Information Service|year=2001|isbn=978-0902990173}}</ref> Industry and commerce are confined to the docks on its western border and a few streets running off Parliament Street. Toxteth is primarily residential, with a mixture of old [[terraced housing]], post-[[World War II]] [[social housing]] and a legacy of large [[Victorian architecture|Victorian houses]].

In the 18th and 19th centuries, as Liverpool expanded the ancient park of Toxteth was gradually urbanised. Large [[Georgian architecture|Georgian houses]] were built in the [[Canning, Liverpool|Canning area]], followed in the [[Victorian era]] by more grand houses, especially along the tree-lined Prince's Road/Avenue boulevard and around Prince's Park. The district quickly became home to the wealthy merchants of Liverpool, alongside a much larger poor population in modest Victorian terraces. Now, some of these streets of terraces are boarded up, awaiting demolition.

Two of the city's largest parks, [[Sefton Park]] and [[Princes Park, Liverpool|Princes Park]], are located in or around Toxteth. The earlier Princes Park was laid out by Richard Vaughan Yates around 1840, intending it to be used as open space, funded by the grand houses to be constructed around its edge,<ref>{{cite web |title=The grand dream and 200-year legacy of Liverpool's failed suburb |url=https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/liverpool-failed-suburb |website=www.livpost.co.uk}}</ref> as would later happen with Sefton Park. Sefton Park was created by the [[Corporation of Liverpool]] in 1872, inspired partly by [[Birkenhead Park]], across the [[River Mersey]]. Sefton Park has a large glass [[Palm House]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://palmhouse.org.uk/history/ | title=History }}</ref> which contains a statue of [[William Rathbone V]] unveiled in 1887, and originally had many other features including an [[aviary]] and an open-air theatre.