Burntwood Heritage Trail and Blue Plaques
Burntwood, Edial and Woodhouses

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Site 1 Edial House Farm.jpg

Edial House Farm early 19th century farm house Farm probably existed by the 16th Century

 
Site 2 Maple Hayes.jpg

Maple Hays existed by 1674. In 1884 bought by Albert Worthington

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Site 3 Pipe Hall Woodhouses.jpg

Pipe Hall, Woodhouses

 
Site 4 Woodhouses Beer House.jpg

Used as a Beer House in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century

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Site 5 Woodhouses Lane.jpg

Woodhouses Lane existed by 1656. Road from Woodhouses to Cannock

 
Site 6 St Matthews Hospital Church.jpg

Built in 1900 as St Matthews Hospital Church. Closed 1995

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Site 7 St Matthews Hospital.jpg

Site of Staffordshire County Asylum. Later known as St Matthews Hospital. Opened 1864. Closed 1995

 
Site 8 St Mattews Chapel.jpg

St Mathews Chapel opened with the cemetery in 1867. Closed in 1956. Demolished in the late 1960’s

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Site 9 Burntwood Rachabite's.jpg

Burntwood Rechabite’s located here in 1890’s

 
Site 10 Elizabeth Ball Charity School.jpg

School House built in 1769 by Elizabeth Ball as a charity school

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Site 11 Christchurch Burntwood.jpg

Christchurch opened in 1820. Burntwood’s first church

 
Site 12 Fulfen Cottage.jpg

Site of Burntwood Dame School which existed by 1775

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The Old School House. Former Burntwood First School originally built in 1877 and converted into ten houses in 1992

 
Site 14 Burntwood Memorial Institute.jpg

Burntwood Memorial Institute started in 1921. Rebuilt in 1971

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Site 15 Fulfen House.jpg

A house existed here at Fulfen by 1537

 
Site 16 Stansfield Bakery.jpg

Walter Stansfield’s bakery operated between 1920 and 1963

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Site 17 Nailer's Cottage.jpg

Nailing was a renown cottage industry in Burntwwod

 
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The Nags Head Inn existed by 1799 and probably by 1775

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Site 19 Green Lane.jpg

Green Lane existed by 1700, as did Green Lane Farm. This was the road from Boney Hay to Cresswell Green

 
Site 20 Nelson Inn.jpg

The Lord Nelson Inn existed by 1824. It was an Inn, Blacksmith’s and slaughterhouse

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Site 21 Star Public House.jpg

A house stood here in the 17th Century. It was the Star Inn by 1790

 
Site 22 History Burntwood.jpg

Burntwood or ‘Brendewode’ was first mentioned in 1296

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Site 23 Burntwood Primitive Methodist Chapel.jpg

Site of Burntwood Methodist Chapel. Built in 1849. Disused in 1875.

 
Site 24 Blue Ball Inn.jpg

Site of the Blue Ball Inn. Existed by 1775

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Site 25 Park Primary School.jpg

Site of Park Primary School. Opened in 1968. Closed in 1999.

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