Roadsigns

The crosshead represents the fact that a religious cross of the wheel-head design has stood in the village for a long time. The oldest-known cross was made of sandstone and the design indicated it was made between 900AD and 1100AD. It was damaged and a replacement, believed to be a copy of the original, but cast in iron, was erected in 1862. That cross now stands in Mill Lane near the Coach & Horses.

Gravesberie is the name of the village in the Domesday Book which was written in 1086. The book lists eight heads of households, giving a likely population of between 32 and 40 combined adults and children.

The date and statement are from the Museum of Liverpool. The date is known from their excavations in Greasby in 1987 to 1990. Burnt hazelnut shells from a cooking hearth or fireplace found during the excavations were radiocarbon-dated in 2017 and the results enabled the Museum to announce an accurate date for the Greasby settlement and to put it into a national context.

The new roadsigns are in slightly different locations to the earlier ones. There have been no boundary changes - the larger signs needed twin posts which had to be positioned where there were no underground service lines.