There is little mention of Liverpool before the year 1207, as the small hamlet was not really important enough to warrant being documented — at least in anything that could be considered official. For example, in the Domesday Survey of 1087 that was commissioned by William The Conqueror for the purposes of gathering tax, it was too small to even be listed at all. We think that the place may be included in six unnamed berewicks covered by the Manor of West Derby, but even that is speculative.