Legend
Prince Rupert's Tower
A crow's nest any schoolboy could take.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- A small round sandstone tower with a conical roof
- Legend from
- Civil War tradition
- Best time
- Any
- Tone
- Wry
From this hill, it's said, Prince Rupert sneered that Liverpool Castle was a crow's nest schoolboys could take.
The Everton Lock-Up, a beehive-shaped stone tower on Everton Brow, was built in 1787 as an overnight cell for drunks and petty criminals. The next day they were taken before the magistrate. It is usually called Prince Rupert's Tower after the royalist commander of the 1640s Civil War. According to the Liverpool Echo, Rupert stayed in a cottage on top of the hill while he prepared to attack Liverpool Castle. He is said to have looked down on the castle and dismissed it as 'a crow's nest that any party of schoolboys could take'. The conical tower is now the centre of the Everton FC crest.