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Yes, sorry, when I said Thurstaston was the highest of all, (that sounds bad English) I was meaning between, Cross Hill and the others you mentioned in your previous post above.

Found the position of the wells and springs in Landican. Greg Dawson's book. Okell's farm was down Landican Lane.
He writes :
' One well is covered in Okell's Farm, and the other was half way down the old Woodchurch Lane, behind the cemetery in what was once a cottage garden.'
' One spring was near to the footpath from Thingwall , just before Okell's farm and the other was at the side of Landican Lane , just before it's junction with Woodchurch Road. This stretch of road was diverted about 1969 as it ran into the newly constructed motorway slip road by the pumping station . Landican Lane now comes out onto Woodchurch Road, opposite the car park , next to Pioneer Supermarket ' (Now Asda I assume)

He also writes :

'There are two ancient wells in Stanley Wood and when I was a lad, I remember a cow falling down one. There must have been a few cottages there years ago as I can't see people digging one well, let alone two , so far from the nearest village.'

In 1934 the 'new' Landican Road was built by Warrens, from Thingwall Corner to Landican Village and Woodchurch Lane was closed to traffic. The middle section of Woodchurch Lane was incorporated in the cemetery and planted with trees. It remained open only as a very muddy footpath until 1944 when it was closed by an Act of Parliament , but access to the cottages was still available. '

Arrowe , going up behind the Warrens to Limbo Lane. Possibly the boundary was at Glenwood Drive Irby, as a stream backed onto the garden of those houses.




https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/esUAAOSwIC1Z20fG/s-l1600.jpg

The pumping station is the gas place, I hadn't noticed Landican Lane had been diverted round this.

The Woodchurch Lane cottages were just a pair of semis, there was a similar pair across the Woodchurch Road from the gas pumping station.

Here's another map showing Arrowe. Not so detailed but there might be more as I didn't look any further.

facing Page 95

https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/74-6-Rideout.pdf