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'''Childwall''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|tʃ|ɪ|l|d|w|ɔː|l}}) is a suburb and [[Ward (country subdivision)|ward]] of [[Liverpool]], in [[Merseyside]], England, located to the southeast of the city. It is bordered by [[Belle Vale, Liverpool|Belle Vale]], [[Bowring Park, Merseyside|Bowring Park]], [[Broadgreen]], [[Gateacre]], [[Mossley Hill]], and [[Wavertree]]. In 2019, the population was 13,640.<ref name=2008pop2019pop>{{citation |url=https://liverpool.gov.uk/media/9945/childwall.pdf|title=Liverpool Ward Profiles: Childwall |publisher=Liverpool City Council |format=pdf |year=2021}}</ref>

The earliest recorded reference to Childwall was in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' of 1086: "Four Radmans held Childwall as four [[Manorialism|Manors]]. There is half a [[Hide (unit)|hide]]. It was worth eight shillings. There was a priest, having half a [[carucate]] of land in [[Frankalmoin|frank almoign]]."<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.allsaints-childwall.org/html_two/ac/bhist_p1.htm|title=Brief History|publisher=All Saints Parish Church, Childwall|access-date=26 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070719141938/http://www.allsaints-childwall.org/html_two/ac/bhist_p1.htm|archive-date=19 July 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.childwall.info/ |title=The History of Childwall|first=Jonathon|last=Wild|access-date=23 January 2009}}</ref> Childwall was known as ''CileuuelleCildeuuelle'' in the 1086 ''[[Domesday Book]]'',<ref>{{citation|url=https://opendomesday.org/book/cheshire/15/|title=Open Domesday|first=Anna|last=Powell-Smith|access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref> meaning "a stream where youngsters meet" from the [[Old English]] words ''cild'' and ''wella''. Historically, the name has been recorded as ''Childewalle'' (1212 and 1332), ''Chaldewall'' (1238), ''Childwall'' (1261), ''Childewelle'' (1291), ''Chaldewal'' (1305), and ''Childewall'' (1354).<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41303|title=Townships: Childwall, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 |publisher=British History Online|year=1907|pages=108–111|access-date=6 February 2009}}</ref>

Childwall was traditionally part of the [[West Derby Hundred]]. It was an [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]] from the [[Local Government Act 1894]] until Liverpool county borough annexed it inon 9 November 1913.<ref>{{citationcite web|url=httphttps://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10027317unit/10136994|title=LiverpoolRelationships and changes Childwall UD through time|publisher=[[A Vision Ofof Britain Throughthrough Time]]|access-dateaccessdate=2627 MarchSeptember 20082024}}</ref> In 1921 the [[civil parish]] had a population of 144.<ref>{{cite web|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archivevisionofbritain.org.uk/webunit/2012083106215310344839/http:cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Childwall AP/wwwCP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=27 September 2024}}</ref> On 1 April 1922 the parish was abolished and merged with Liverpool.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp%3Bjsessionid%3D06E75550A4804D79E1E30D8BAF9130D5?u_idunit/10344839|title=10027317Relationships and changes Childwall AP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|archive-dateaccessdate=3127 AugustSeptember 20122024}}</ref> The suburb's [[All Saints' Church, Childwall|All Saints' Church]] is the oldest church in Liverpool. Though Childwall still maintains a large Jewish community, this has been in gradual decline since the 1980s, with some of the former Jewish community now living in the nearby suburbs of [[Allerton, Merseyside|Allerton]] and [[Gateacre]].