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23rd January 2017, 21.22:39 | #317-0 (permalink) | |
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23rd January 2017, 22.09:55 | #319-0 (permalink) | |
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24th January 2017, 23.34:07 | #320-0 (permalink) |
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Attached is a map of The Racecourse dated 1819, with The Turf Tavern also shown.
Opposite The Racecourse (where the train station is today) is a field with a pond in it, named as Bryn Llyn or Bryn Elyn; next to The Groves. I understand that during the early to mid 17th Century, these fields, opposite The Racecourse, were collectively known as Crispins Field. Last edited by eastsussexred; 24th January 2017 at 23.44:00.. |
25th January 2017, 09.25:40 | #321-0 (permalink) | |
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On the right of the attachment, was a church yard and vicarage. The red dots on the image, are houses. Last edited by eastsussexred; 25th January 2017 at 09.35:16.. |
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26th January 2017, 23.51:52 | #322-0 (permalink) |
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THE SHOEMAKERS
In 1620, a survey was made of the possessions of Charles- Prince of Wales, including the Lordship of Bromfield and Yale, of which, Wrexham was included. The survey, which was compiled in Latin, was later translated and summarised in a series of books by Wrexham historian- Alfred Neobard Palmer, and which were published at the end of the 19th Century. The Survey recorded that much of the trade in Wrexham at the begining of the 17th Century revolved around agriculture and livestock markets, with the consequential manufacture of flannel, gloves and leather goods, such as shoes and boots, which were sold in local shops, and provided much of the income of the town’s inhabitants, although there were also quite a few small-scale malt kilns in the town at that time. The survey also recorded the street names and the names of fields in the area, and Palmer noticed that many of the fields (some of which were separated into smaller parcels of land) were named according to the crafts and trades, which historically had provided the industry of the town; - such as Butchers Field, Glovers Hollow, Receivers Field (receiver for the Lordship) and the Field of the Tenter-hooks (later known as Tenters Field) etc. Additionally, he noted, that many of these field names were listed in an earlier record ‘The Common Fields’ of Wrexham (1562) and he concluded that the field names dated back to a time when the industry of the town was being established (the leather industry in Wrexham, for example, has been dated back to the 14th Century) with traders or groups of traders gradually buying the freehold or leasehold of parcels of land, and that these ancient field names of old Medieval Wrexham had carried through to the 17th Century. Palmer then specifically identified two parcels of land; - Shoemakers Mound, off Chester Road, and Shoemakers Hollow, near Bradley Road, and he linked both of these plots with the area of land that we know as The Racecourse. ‘On one side of Crispin Lane is a piece of land, now traversed by the Great Western Railway line, which was formerly called "Crispin field" and on the other side of the same lane was a large field (on the north side of the present Race Course) known as "Crispin croft". The triangular croft in the apex of which Crispin Lodge has been built, and whose base forms one side of Stansty Park, is called " Crispin meadow," while a second "Crispin field" lies opposite to it on the other side of the Mold Road. Now these several closes, or three of them, seem to have been connected with a tavern which once stood in Stansty, called “The Crispin Inn." But St. Crispin was the patron saint of shoemakers; and it may very well be that in the name of this inn we have another indication of the former existence in Wrexham of some such incorporated society of these craftsmen as has been supposed. Whatever be the explanation of the names which have been cited, they are, it cannot be denied, very curious and interesting.’ A.N. Palmer Last edited by eastsussexred; 26th January 2017 at 23.59:00.. |
27th January 2017, 00.53:26 | #323-0 (permalink) | |
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The lower section of these fields would come to be known as The Racecourse. Last edited by eastsussexred; 27th January 2017 at 00.55:34.. |
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