Welsh Frankton
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|civil_parish = Ellesmere Rural
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|region = West Midlands
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Welsh Frankton is a village in the civil parish of Ellesmere Rural in Shropshire, England, about {{convert|2.5|mi|km|1}} southwest of Ellesmere, on the A495 road.
Description
File:Village Hall, Welsh Frankton.jpg
Welsh Frankton is one of four wards of the Ellesmere Rural Parish Council area, and elects two of the twelve councillors in the council.
The village hall, built in the early 1930s, is alongside the church. It is run as a registered charity.[https://welshfranktonvillagehall.co.uk/ Welsh Frankton Village Hall] Retrieved 16 April 2023.
The Shropshire Union Canal runs through the parish.[http://www.ellesmererural-pc.gov.uk/community/ellesmere-rural-parish-council-13200/home# Ellesmere Rural Parish Council] Retrieved 16 April 2023. There was once a railway station, on the Cambrian Railways,[https://ukga.org/index.php?pageid=24560 "Frankton or Welsh Frankton, Shropshire"] UK Genealogy Archives. Retrieved 16 April 2023. which operated between 1867 and 1965.{{cite web|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/frankton/index.shtml|title=Station Name: Frankton|work=Disused Stations|access-date=27 February 2017}}
=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.{{NHLE|num=1055882 |desc=Church of Andrew|access-date= 15 April 2023}}
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.{{cite book|last=Francis|first=Peter|title=Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance|year=2013|publisher=YouCaxton, Bishop's Castle|page=183|isbn=978-1-909644-11-3}} The churchyard contains the war grave of a King's Shropshire Light Infantry soldier of the First World War.{{cite web|title=Serjeant George Urion, casualty record|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/search-results/?CemeteryExact=true&Cemetery=WELSH%20FRANKTON%20(ST.%20ANDREW)%20CHURCHYARD|website=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|access-date=6 July 2023}}
The church is part of a benefice with Criftins and Dudleston Churches.[https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/4272/ "Welsh Frankton Church: St. Andrew"] A church near you. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
=Notable people=
Future Victoria Cross recipient John Brunt (1922–1944) attended village school at Welsh Frankton before going up to Ellesmere College.{{cite book|last=Elderwick|first=David|title=50 Shropshire Celebrities, Past and Present|year=1989|publisher=IMPRINT, Newtown, Wales|page=23}}
See also
References
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External links
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