Does anyone here live in Loxley Village?

Originally posted by sanman
Does anyone here live in Loxley Village?

Loxley VILLAGE? what's that all about?

I'mtrying to find out if any other users of this forum live in Loxley Village, Loxley is not only a river/valley it has its own village as well.

I don't think there's such a place as Loxley village these days. Loxley was swallowed up into the urban sprawl of Sheffield 30 odd years ago. It's still a very nice area though.

Originally posted by Magneteer
I don't think there's such a place as Loxley village these days. Loxley was swallowed up into the urban sprawl of Sheffield 30 odd years ago. It's still a very nice area though.
I agree, there's no such place as Loxley Village, nor ever was, but it's a lovely valley.

Magneteer & Algy

You'ree both wrong I'm afraid, there is such a place as Loxley Village. Its boundaries are essentially from the embankment at the Dam Flask down to the middle of the river Loxley and up to Myers Lane and up Studfield Hill to the plantation. Just because a village is joined to a greater conurbation doesn't mean it stops being a village, by that logic there would be very few villages at all.

Oh right....... I'll pop into ye olde village pub later then after I've been to the village post office and quaff a few pints with the village Squire, and then maybe I'll stroll back across the village green towards my own hamlet of Malin Bridge. Must dash, I must go and milk the cows and chop some logs.

Oh by the way, there is no such thing as "The Dam Flask". I believe you are refering to Damflask reservoir, so named because it covers an area where once stood the village of Damflask consisting of a few houses and workshops. It was destoyed in the Sheffield flood of 1864.

Which village pub do you want to use? the Wisewood Inn, Admiral Rodney or Nags Head? The village green is the triangle of grass at the junction of Rodney Hill and Loxley Road where we have a Christmas Tree every year. The village post office also acts as a general store and off license.

Magneteer et al, are you being sarky to sanman by any chance ... :suspect: *tuts*

Is this a knee jerk reaction by some to anyone seen as being even remotely pretentious? I seem to remember someone else being flamed for calling somewhere Wadsley Park Village when others thought it ought to have been Middlewood lol ...

Is this the famous Sheffield inverted snobbery coming out :D

I don't live there sanman, but I have been the Admiral in the past ... do they still have the BBQs there in the summer?

Hi Rubyd

Yes they still have the occasional BBQ. My reason for asking about Loxley Village is not a pretentious one, the government have given money for all villages to undertake a "village appraisal". Loxley is one of the few villages that have yet to do theirs and I'm looking for people to help me get it started.

If Magneteer wants to be sarky about it then its him that has a problem and not me.

The only villages you'll find around here are Bradfield, Dungworth and Storrs. Sorry to shatter your illusion but Loxley is just an AREA of Sheffield.

Anyone living in Stannington want to respond?

Try readingthis (http://www.bradfieldparish.org.uk/) maybe then you'll admit that there are still some villages in Sheffield

Originally posted by sanman
Try readingthis (http://www.bradfieldparish.org.uk/) maybe then you'll admit that there are still some villages in Sheffield
No-one said there are no villages in Sheffield, still no mention of Loxley Village though. A village is a nucleated settlement , often but not necessarily, with a church or a green. Putting a Christmas tree on a patch of grass doesn't constitute a village green Which Loxley Village organisation was responsible for putting it there? I can understand wanting to tap into funding etc, but calling somewhere a village doesn't make it one. If Loxley is a village then so is Rivelin, it's got pubs, a post office, houses etc. Some parts of Sheffield are former villages, e.g. Darnall, Attercliffe, Stannington, Wadsley, Crookes, Norton. Other areas have been incorporated but were never villages, e.g. Ecclesall, Whirlow, Southey, Pitsmoor etc. The area you describe as Loxley Village still hasn't been swallowed up by the urban area of Sheffield, so if it ever existed it should be clearly identifiable, but it isn't because it was never there, sorry.

Spot on Algy........Now I think we ought to scarper before Sanman summons a peeler and has us both committed to a session in ye olde village stocks whereupon we will be pelted with rotten fruit by the angry villagers of Loxley.

Algy & Magneteer if you had tried reading the link that I posted you would have seen this which is a direct quote from the Bradfield Parish Council website.

"It is one of the largest Parish Councils in England (in area) and has a population of approximately 12,000 adults. The population is concentrated mainly in the villages of Oughtibridge, Stannington, Loxley, Worrall, Wharncliffe Side, High and Low Bradfield, Dungworth and Midhopestones, with smaller hamlets of Brightholmlee, Holdworth, Hollow Meadows, Storrs, Ughill and Upper Midhope."

Note the term villages and the inclusion of Loxley in this list.

I read what it says sanman, and looking at the list, every one of those places is a historically identifiable village. Except that is for Loxley. can you give me any references to any book, map, charter, story etc that mentions Loxley as a village? I notice that even the map on the Bradfield website, and the Multimap they point to , don't show Loxley by name, let alone as a village.
(Sorry, this seems to be getting a bit heavy! I've no axe to grind here, I just enjoy a good argument. :thumbsup: ) I do seriously wonder though whether the people handing out the cash consider Loxley a village? Best of luck with your efforts anyway.

No worries Algy, the cash is already there:thumbsup:

Having looked in the encyclopedia it states that what differentiates a Village from a Hamlet is that it must have a place of worship. If you go here (http://www.old-maps.co.uk/) and search for Loxley you'll get access to a map of 1855 Zoom in as far as you can and find the Admiral Rodney then to the left and above you'll find Loxley Chapel. The chapel still exists although is no longer a place of worhsip. It's graveyard is on Long Lane just above the Garden Centre. What differentiates a Village from a town is the lack of a regular market.

Had a look at the map thanks, and I'd love to continue with the argument, but I'm conscious that I'm in danger of hijacking your thread (if I haven't already!) .Perhaps I should start one of my own along the lines of "When is a village not a village?" :thumbsup: