Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Mock Beggar Hall 1690 Orm2

• the New Hall by Wallasey Race 17 Sheaf

• the New Hall 1770 Orm2

• Leasowe Castle 1802 ib

• a manor house formerly called New Hall, afterwards Mock Beggar, and now Leasowe Castle 1819 ib

• the horse-races at Wallasey in Wirral 1683 Orm2

Etymology

Leasowe Castle, Mockbeggar Hall (109–264918), Mock Beggar Hall 1690 Orm2, the New Hall by Wallasey Race 17 Sheaf, the New Hall 1770 Orm2, Leasowe Castle 1802 ib, a manor house formerly called New Hall , afterwards Mock Beggar , and now Leasowe Castle 1819 ib, a sporting lodge with an octagonal tower (v. castel(l)), built in 1593 at the earl of Derby's race-course here (the horse-races at Wallasey in Wirral 1683 Orm2, whence the famous Derby Stakes, now run at Epsom Sr, v. ras ) v. mock-beggar, nīwe , hall , cf. Leasowe supra . Orm2 ii 474 ascribes the name Mock -Beggar to its lonely delapidation after the Civil War.