Welsh Frankton

Human settlement in England

Welsh Frankton

St Andrew's Church

Welsh Frankton

Location within Shropshire

OS grid reference| SJ 364 331
Civil parish|

* Ellesmere Rural

Shire county|

* Shropshire

Region|

* West Midlands

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Police| West Mercia
Fire| Shropshire
Ambulance| West Midlands

List of places

England
Shropshire

52°53′31″N 2°56′48″W﻿ / ﻿52.89194°N 2.94667°W﻿ / 52.89194; -2.94667

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.

## Description

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The village hall

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]

### St Andrew's Church

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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.[4]

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, with a marble plaque listing those killed in the First World War, with two names from the Second World War below it.[5] The churchyard contains the war grave of a King's Shropshire Light Infantry soldier of the First World War.[6]

The church is part of a benefice with Criftins and Dudleston Churches.[7]

### Notable people

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Future Victoria Cross recipient John Brunt (1922–1944) attended village school at Welsh Frankton before going up to Ellesmere College.[8]

## See also

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* Frankton Junction
* Listed buildings in Ellesmere Rural

## References

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1. ^ a b Ellesmere Rural Parish Council Retrieved 16 April 2023.
2. ^ Welsh Frankton Village Hall Retrieved 16 April 2023.
3. ^ "Frankton or Welsh Frankton, Shropshire" UK Genealogy Archives. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
4. ^ Historic England. "Church of Andrew (1055882)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
5. ^ Francis, Peter (2013). Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance. YouCaxton, Bishop's Castle. p. 183\. ISBN 978-1-909644-11-3.
6. ^ "Serjeant George Urion, casualty record". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
7. ^ "Welsh Frankton Church: St. Andrew" A church near you. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
8. ^ Elderwick, David (1989). 50 Shropshire Celebrities, Past and Present. IMPRINT, Newtown, Wales. p. 23.

## External links

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* Media related to Welsh Frankton at Wikimedia Commons