Horseman's Green Explained

Country:Wales
Static Image Name:Church at Little Arowry - geograph.org.uk - 182202.jpg
Static Image Caption:The former Mission Room at Horseman's Green
Coordinates:52.965°N -2.827°W
Official Name:Horseman's Green
Community Wales:Hanmer
Unitary Wales:Wrexham
Lieutenancy Wales:Clwyd
Constituency Westminster:Clwyd South
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Clwyd South
Post Town:WHITCHURCH
Postcode District:SY13
Postcode Area:SY
Dial Code:01948
Os Grid Reference:SJ445411

Horseman's Green is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. Located in the rural southeast of the county borough, it is close to the Wales-England border, in the community of Hanmer, the village is also simply called the Green.

A small hamlet outside the village is known as Little Arowry (to distinguish it from the nearby village of Arowry).

History

Horseman's Green is one of a number of villages in the Maelor Saesneg containing the element "Green" in their names, indicating that they came into existence in relatively modern times with the enclosure of former common land. The name Horseman's Green is first recorded at the very end of the 17th century in the form "Horse Math's Green", likely derived from the obsolete dialect word "math", meaning "a mowing" (i.e. meadow land).[1]

Most notable for its proximity to Hanmer (the birthplace of Lorna Sage and the setting for the autobiography Bad Blood), the village was also an evacuation area in the Second World War. The neighbouring village of Penley is well known for its Polish residents and hospital, which still housed Polish war evacuees until very recent years. Horseman's Green was used less commonly by those looking to avoid Nazi German Luftwaffe bombing raids from the Crosby area of Liverpool.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/maelor/mssettle.htm Maelor Saesneg: the Settlement Landscape
  2. Web site: WW2 People's War - A Young Family in Wartime at Crosby by David Huxley. BBC.