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Levedale
Levedale is a small somewhat elongated English village situated some 4 miles southwest of Stafford, 2 miles northwest of Penkridge and a mile west of Dunston, Staffordshire. The population as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Penkridge It forms part of a group of hamlets and villages lying in a rectangular area of farmland lying to the southwest of Stafford and the east of Telford, between the A518 to the north, the A449 to the east, Watling Street to the south, and the A41 to the west. This area contains the large villages of Weston-under-Lizard, Wheaton Aston and Penkridge in the southern half and Gnosall and Church Eaton in the northern half. It also contains many small villages and hamlets, including Mitton, Coppenhall, Whiston, Lapley, High Onn, Blymhill, Dunston, Bradley, Levedale, Stretton, Moreton, Orslow, etc. Levedale village consists of cottages, houses and a few farms scattered along several roads that run between Coppenhall and Penkridge. Lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levedale Mission Church
Levedale is a small somewhat elongated English village situated some 4 miles southwest of Stafford, 2 miles northwest of Penkridge and a mile west of Dunston, Staffordshire. The population as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Penkridge It forms part of a group of hamlets and villages lying in a rectangular area of farmland lying to the southwest of Stafford and the east of Telford, between the A518 to the north, the A449 to the east, Watling Street to the south, and the A41 to the west. This area contains the large villages of Weston-under-Lizard, Wheaton Aston and Penkridge in the southern half and Gnosall and Church Eaton in the northern half. It also contains many small villages and hamlets, including Mitton, Coppenhall, Whiston, Lapley, High Onn, Blymhill, Dunston, Bradley, Levedale, Stretton, Moreton, Orslow, etc. Levedale village consists of cottages, houses and a few farms scattered along several roads that run between Coppenhall and Penkridge. Levedale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Penkridge
Penkridge is a civil parish in the district of South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains 76 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the town of Penkridge, smaller settlements including Bickford, Levedale, Pillaton, Staffordshire, Pillaton, and Whiston, South Staffordshire, Whiston, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, cottages, farmhouses, farm buildings, public houses, and shops, the earlier of which are timber framed or have a timber framed core. The other listed buildings include a church, monuments and other structures in the churchyard, bridges, stocks and a bench, a former village lock-up, lock-up, a railway viaduct, a public librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penkridge
Penkridge ( ) is a village and civil parish in South Staffordshire, South Staffordshire District in Staffordshire, England. It is to the south of Stafford, north of Wolverhampton, west of Cannock, east of Telford and south-east of Newport, Shropshire, Newport. The wealthiest establishment in Penkridge in the Middle Ages, its collegiate church building survived the Chantry#Abolition of Chantries Acts, 1545 and 1547, abolition of the chantries and is the tallest structure in the village centre. The parish is crossed towards its eastern border by the M6 motorway and a separate junction north of the M6 Toll between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Stoke-on-Trent. Penkridge has a Penkridge railway station, railway station on the West Coast Main Line railway next to the listed building, Grade I listed medieval church. Penkridge Viaduct and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal are to either side of Market Street and the Old Market Square and are among its landmarks. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about south of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Wolverhampton, and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 71,673 at the 2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses, 2021 census, and is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Stafford, which had a population of 136,837 in 2021. Stafford has Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon roots, being founded in 913, when Æthelflæd, List of monarchs of Mercia, Lady of the Mercians founded a defensive burh, it became the county town of Staffordshire soon after. Stafford became an important market town in the Middle Ages, and later grew into an important industrial town due to the proliferation of shoemaking, engineering and electrical industries. History Ancient Prehistoric finds suggest scattered settlements in the area, whilst south-west of the town lies an British Iron Age, Iron Age hill fort at Berry Ring. There is also evidence of Roman Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough Of Stafford
The Borough of Stafford is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England. It is named after Stafford, its largest town, which is where the council is based. The borough also includes the towns of Stone and Eccleshall, as well as numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The neighbouring districts are Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Moorlands, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Cannock Chase, South Staffordshire, Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire. History The town of Stafford was an ancient borough, being described as a borough in the Domesday Book of 1086. Its earliest surviving charter was issued by King John in 1206. Stafford was formally incorporated in 1614 by a charter from James I, which also granted the right to appoint a mayor. The borough was reformed in 1836 to become a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which reformed many boroughs across the country. As part of those reforms the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Hatherton
Baron Hatherton, of Hatherton in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1835 for the politician Edward Littleton, Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1833 to 1834. Born Edward Walhouse, he assumed in 1812 by Royal licence the surname of Littleton in lieu of his patronymic on succeeding to the estates of his great-uncle Sir Edward Littleton, 4th and last Baronet, of Teddesley Hall. He was also heir to the substantial Walhouse estates and interests, which included Hatherton Hall, near Cannock, then in an exclave of Wolverhampton. His wealth was based upon landed estates centred on Penkridge in southern Staffordshire, mines at Great Wyrley and Bloxwich, quarries and sandpits, brick yards and residential housing, mainly in Walsall. Lord Hatherton was succeeded by his son, Edward Richard, the second Baron, who represented Walsall in the House of Commons as a Liberal. His son, the third Baron, notably served as Military Secretary to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Most are members of national or regional Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, one of the largest Christian bodies in the world, and the world's third-largest Christian communion. When united and uniting churches, united churches in the Anglican Communion and the breakaway Continuing Anglican movement were not counted, there were an estimated 97.4 million Anglicans worldwide in 2020. Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The provinces within the Anglican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Of Rome
Saint Lawrence or Laurence (; 31 December 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258. Life Lawrence is thought to have been born on 31 December AD 225, in Huesca (or less probably, in Valencia), the town from which his parents came in the later region of Aragon that was then part of the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. The martyrs Orentius (Modern Spanish: ) and Patientia (Modern Spanish: ) are traditionally held to have been his parents.Sts. Orentius and Patientia Catholic Online Lawrence encountered the future Pope Sixtus II, a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Of Ease
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to travel distance. Often a chapel of ease is deliberately built as such, being more accessible to some parishioners than the main church. Such a chapel may exist, for example, when a parish covers several dispersed villages, or a central village together with its satellite hamlet (place), hamlet or hamlets. In such a case the parish church will be in the main settlement, with one or more chapels of ease in the subordinate village(s) and/or hamlet(s). An example is the chapel belonging to All_Hallows_Church,_South_River, All Hallows' Parish in Maryland, United States. The chapel was built in Davidsonville, Maryland, Davidsonville from 1860 to 1865 because the parish's "Brick Church" in South River was distance which took an hour to walk each way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moreton, Staffordshire
Moreton is a small rural village in the borough of Stafford in Staffordshire, England, near the border with Shropshire. It is south-west from Gnosall, south-east from Newport, Shropshire, Newport, and South-West-West from Stafford. Population details as taken at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census can be found under Gnosall. Description Two notable sites in the village are the village community hall built in 2000 and St. Mary's Church. The church of St. Mary is a stone building, in the Italianate architecture, Italian style, and was erected in 1837; it consists of a chancel, transepts and nave, with tower and one bell, and seats 340 people. One other local site which is now a privately owned home is the school, which at one point had over one hundred students from Moreton and its surrounding hamlets. Considering the size of the village (roughly 50-60 houses), the lack of more facilities is unsurprising, although historically it had a school, shop, and two pubs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley, Staffordshire
Bradley's village hall Bradley is a village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 513. It is located close to the A518 road leading to the villages of Haughton and Gnosall towards Telford. Notable people * Benjamin Broomhall (1829 – 1911) a British advocate of foreign missions, administrator of the China Inland Mission OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christianity, Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore. It ..., and author, born in Bradley. * Wilf Phillips (1895 – 1976) an English footballer who played 292 professional games, born in Bradley. See also * Listed buildings in Bradley, Staffordshire References Villages in Staffordshire Civil parishes in Staffordshire Borough of Stafford {{Staffordshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiston, South Staffordshire
Whiston is a hamlet in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. Population details taken at the 2011 census can be found under Penkridge. See also *Listed buildings in Penkridge Penkridge is a civil parish in the district of South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains 76 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed a ... Hamlets in Staffordshire Penkridge {{Staffordshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
