Corn Merchants Oswestry

[ROBERTOWEN]

My GGGf  John Richard Owen, who lived in Liverpool, put the address
of his business in the local Liverpool Directory of 1875 as
Balls Wood, Oswestry...
Can anybody enlighten me, to where this is, or may have been.

[sem73]

Hi there

There's a place called Ball about 5 miles southeast of Oswestry.....a possibility??

Sarah

[Gadget]

The only thing that I can come up with, besides Sarah's suggestion,  is a perhaps badly written Babbinswood which was mistranscribed. This is to the NE of Oswestry, towards Whittington.
I lived in the area for 18 years and can't recall a Balls Wood.

Gadget

[ROBERTOWEN]

Thanks
Yes, I found a place called Ball,
Thanks anyway !

Rob

[Baldlygo]

Thanks for asking the question Robert - It prompted me to dig out information I was not aware of.

Ball is very close to Maesbury which has a good web forum covering Family History and Maesbury History.

The history site has the following statement on the first page:-
The artificially straightened section of the River Morda, along Ball Lane, is the the earliest post-Roman hydraulic engineering in Britain.

Paul

[ROBERTOWEN]

Thanks
What a great site for this area.
But no luck with Balls Wood, It's not that important
to find, i suspect he had business with the local corn supplier.