Hi , Could anyone fill me in on the following places:- Lower Hill,Cross Lanes,Selatynn. Selatynn Fach, Selatynn. Cycle Depot, Holy Head rd,Chirk, I cant find any on google maps so they have probably long gone. Also at the time of roughly 1870-1900, which schools were available to children in the above areas. Thanks.
Hi
The parish also has a collection of farm buildings with the name “Cross Lanes” at SJ294323 west of Pentre-clawdd.
Graham
Well I know that Selattyn has a well established Primary School now...but not sure how long it has bene in existence - it is certainly there on the 1872 Map (check out this website - http://www.old-maps.co.uk). Search Selattyn and click on the first map. When you zoom in, you will see it is notated as a 'National School', just above the town name.
On the same map if you go to the east, there is a TOWER hill (not a Lower Hill but maybe mistranscribed?)
In terms of Cross Lanes, when I view Selattyn on this map (it only searches with a street name or postcode, so type in 'Glyn Road Selattyn', its the main route trough the village - http://shropshire.gov.uk/maps/default.htm) and if you zoom out and go south-east some, you will see it as classed as that whole area where Tower Hill Farm is and to the south doqwn the same road, is Cross Lane Cottage.
On the old maps (referring to the 1889 one now) here is a Selattyn Hill to the west with a tower and some houses and also a Selattyn Lodge to the south-west. If what Mike says about Fach meaning small is correct, then I would imagine it was likely just a nearby hamlet of dwellings...
This site has soem Parish Registers that may be worth you looking over... http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Selattyn/index.html
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Hello Dinah
"Cross Lanes" is 1m. SSE of Selattyn but I can't help with Lower Hill. Note spelling of Selattyn - two 'T's' and one 'N'.
I can't find "Selattyn Fach, Selattyn" listed as such but Fach means Little. There is no trace of a "Little Selattyn" either.
Cycle Depot, Holyhead Road, Chirk is in Wales, historically in the County of Denbigh, recently part of Clwyd and now part of Wrexham so you are probably better looking at Clwyd Family History Society web site for that one.
I can't help directly with the schools part of your question but I can tell you that a school was built in 1859 in the village where I live and most reasonable sized villages are likely to have had one about that time. There are records at Shropshire Archives which give you lots of details about village schools including the size and number of classrooms.
Mike