Scotland road - Definition

Scotland Road or Scottie Road is situated aside the docks in the Vauxhall area of north Liverpool.

Scotland Road was created in the 1770s as a turnpike road to Preston via Walton and Burscough. It became part of a stagecoach route to Scotland, hence its name. It was partly widened in 1803 and streets of working-class housing laid out either side as Liverpool expanded. Many were demolished as slums in the 1930s, to be replaced with corporation flats. In the Victorian period the area had over 200 public houses, mostly now closed.

The Scotland Road area has been blighted by unemployment and crime in the last 20 years.

See also

• The Throstles nest
• The Holyland
• A59 road

External links

• http://www.scottiepress.org.uk
• http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scotrd.htm