Welsh Frankton
Village in Shropshire, England
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Welsh Frankton is a village in the civil parish of Ellesmere Rural in Shropshire, England, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Ellesmere, on the A495 road.
| Welsh Frankton | |
|---|---|
St Andrew's Church | |
  Welsh Frankton Location within Shropshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 364 331 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
Description
Welsh Frankton is one of four wards of the Ellesmere Rural Parish Council area, and elects two of the twelve councillors in the council.[1]
The village hall, built in the early 1930s, is alongside the church. It is run as a registered charity.[2]
The Shropshire Union Canal runs through the parish.[1] There was once a railway station, on the Cambrian Railways,[3] which operated between 1867 and 1965.[4]
St Andrew's Church
The church, designed by Edward Haycock in Early Decorated style, was built in 1857–58 on the site of a chapel of 1835. It was a chapel of ease until the parish of Welsh Frankton was created in 1865 from parts of those of Ellesmere and Whittington. The tower, with a broach spire, is in the south-west corner. The first incumbent was Oswald Moseley Feilden, who donated the marble reredos in 1870. He died in 1924, and the stained-glass east window was installed in his memory.[5]
The village's war memorial consists of a stone shrine surmounted by a cross built into the churchyard wall on the side of the main road between Ellesmere and Oswestry, bearing a marble plaque listing those killed in the First World War, with two names from the Second World War below it.[6] The churchyard contains the war grave of a King's Shropshire Light Infantry soldier of the First World War.[7]
The church is part of a benefice with Criftins and Dudleston Churches.[8]
Notable people
Future Victoria Cross recipient John Brunt (1922–1944) attended village school at Welsh Frankton before going up to Ellesmere College.[9]
