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Horseman's Green

Village in Wales

Summary

Village in Wales

Field	Value
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
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).

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.

Important buildings

Hanmer First Scout Group
Newhaven House
Ferncliffe House (Built 1890)
Oak Villa

References

[http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/maelor/mssettle.htm Maelor Saesneg: the Settlement Landscape], Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
"WW2 People's War - A Young Family in Wartime at Crosby by David Huxley". BBC.

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