Historically Anfield was used for cattle grazing and quarrying. The word Anfield originated in the combination of Old and Middle English words, which mean "a field on a slope" and Hongfield - from Middle English 'hange' and Old English 'field'. Anfield, and its deviations, has been associated with the area since at least 1642. It has also been stated that it takes its name from the Hangfields, narrow strips running back inland from a brow overlooking the Mersey. The agrarian character was transformed by enclosure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At about 1817 Anfield House seems to have been acquired by Christopher Bullin as a country residence enjoying a pleasantly rural garden outlook to the north-east. Christopher Bullin was a partner in the banking firm Leyland & Bullins which, in 1901, under the pressure of modern tendencies, amalgamated with the North and South Wales Bank Limited. In 1836 the area was made part of Liverpool. A closer look at an Ordnance Survey map from 1845 shows buildings called Annfield House, Annfield Lodge and Annfield Cottage, none of which remain, plus Annfield Lane which eventually became Anfield Road. In 1881 the Garnett family left their home in Williamstown, Ireland to live at Annfield House, Annfield Road, Liverpool.
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| The Arkles Public House |
The Ordnance Survey map from 1851 ( below ), displays Anfield as a rural settlement, the landscaping mainly consisting of open fields and dispersed villas housing of the wealthy merchant classes. It shows a house here called Anfield House (then described as Annfield House), around which the district developed. This many years later was the residence of George Arkle, a subsequent partner in the banking firm. In 1851 George Arkle was living at Annfield House, and had a household of seven tended by three domestic servants; the grounds were looked after by a gardener who lived with his family in a separate cottage, and a coachman and his family occupied the gate-lodge. He married Agnes Cearns of 43 Rodney Street on the 27th of April 1854 at St. Bride, Toxteth. He is described as George Arkle - full, Banker, Bachelor, Anfield House, Walton. The Arkles Public House, (formerly The Royal Hotel), Anfield Road, late 1880s, occupies part of the site of Annfield House.
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| Annfield House ( No.8 location ) |
For many years the Graves family were business owners in New Ross, Co.Wexford before Robert Samuel Graves left his home in Rosbercon Castle and headed to Liverpool about the year 1860. He took on the running of the Graves shipping company in the city and he was elected Mayor of Liverpool as well as being a Member of Parliament for the area in 1865. In his capacity as Mayor, it was he who put through a proposal to develop grounds on the outskirts of the city for a Liverpool Football Club. These grounds ran directly behind the family business and Robert then sanctioned a proposal to build a roadway up to the new grounds, and duly named it Anfield Lane, after the one beside his ancestral home in Rosbercon Castle, New Ross. His family home in New Ross was in the townland of Annefield and with Annefield Lane running just above Rosbercon Castle, Samuel Robert Graves chose that name for his Liverpool home.
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The streets between Anfield rd and Oakfield rd were built by David Hughes Yr Wylfa Amlwch.From Wylva rd down southward.Edith and Lillian were his grandaughters.He employed mostly Welsh craftsmen.He is buried near the chapel in Anfield Cemetery.He also built the beautiful chapel which stood on the petrol station site.The Welsh in many areas played a more prominent part in building Liverpool’s heritage..Gari Wyn Jones
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