Burntwood Heritage Trail and Blue Plaques
This page contains links to three booklets produced by Burntwood Chase Heritage Group and the Keepers of the Archive. The contents describe the location and background to the Blue Plaques that can be found dotted around the various communities that make up the wider Burntwood area. Some of these plaques are more easy to find than others but walking the Heritage Trail and locating the plaques is as good a way as any of discovering more about the history of the town that has come to be known as “Burntwood”. Copies of these booklets are now extremely rare, as you will find if you enquire for one through the Staffordshire Library Service, so we are very grateful to Burntwood Chase Heritage Group for permission to include the pages on our website so that the contents continue to be available, both to local residents and to interested visitors to the area.
The links below will take you not only to the contents of each booklet but also to photographs of the blue plaques. In one of the stranger side effects of the first Covid-19 lockdown, Carole Taylor set herself the project of photographing all the blue heritage plaques, more than 70 of them altogether. As Carole says, the challenge of locating each one not only lent purpose and variety to the daily “exercise” walks she took with her husband during the early lockdown restrictions of 2020, but also helped to keep her sane. We are delighted, and extremely grateful that Carole has kindly agreed to share her images through our website, and we hope they will inspire others to search out the “blue plaques” - even if some of them are now more than a little faded - and, through them, discover more about the heritage of the area we share.
