The variations have included Tarboc (1086), Turboc (1245), Terbock (1327), Tarbacke (1637) before it settled on its current form in the late seventeenth century.

Towards the end of the twelfth century the two were split between different branches of the family with Tarbock being assigned to Henry de Lathom.

Ownership of the manor remained in the Lathom family, often through the female line, until 1611 when it was sold to Thomas Sutton, a London gentleman and founder of Charterhouse School.

Unfortunately Sutton died a few months later and it was his nephew who sold the estate to Sir Richard Molyneux, the Earl of Sefton three years later for £10,500.

The oldest part of the area around Tarbock Green, often called Blue Duck corner after a former Inn.

In the fourteenth century Tarbock Hall had its own private chapel but the villagers would have attended St. Michael's Church at Huyton.

Even in the early twentieth century the township remained predominantly rural until the opening of a new coalmine at Halsnead Park.

William Webster, who died in 1684, bequeathed the interest of some shares he held for the poor of both Huyton and Tarbock.

In the late nineteenth century there seems to have been a phase of re-development, albeit on a small scale with the Post Office and Smithy building which was originally thatched, being rebuilt in 1884.

Of far more significance was the sale of the Tarbock Estate by a public auction in 1926 at the local Hare and Hounds Hotel.