The earliest settlement of Wavertree is attested to by the discovery of Bronze Age burial urns in Victoria Park in the mid-1860s,[3][4] while digging the footings for houses, two of which were built for Patrick O Connor, patentee, ironmonger, merchant and chair to the Wavertree Local Board of Health.

The village green, on which Wavertree's lock-up was built, is officially the only surviving piece of common land in Liverpool.

[12] Wavertree is also home to the annual Smithdown Road Festival, with local bars and cafes hosting almost 200 bands every year.

It has been represented in House of Commons by Paula Barker since 2019, of the Labour Party, in the parliamentary constituency of Liverpool Wavertree.

This used to be located in Chestnut Grove next to our Lady's Roman Catholic Church, which is now facing re-development.

St Clare's Roman Catholic Primary School is also situated off Smithdown Road.

Opened in 1895, it is based on land donated to Liverpool Corporation by an anonymous donor (hence its nickname) to be a venue for organised sports, and a place for children from the city's schools to run about in, not a park for "promenading" in the Victorian tradition.

[13] The donor expressed the hope that the City Council "might approve of giving it a fair trial for this purpose ... before appropriating it for any other use".