Pipehill is a hamlet and former

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, now in the parish of

Hammerwich Hammerwich is a small village and civil parish in the Lichfield District, in Staffordshire, England. It is southeast of Burntwood. Name The name may derive from ''hamor'' (Old English: a hammer) and ''wīc'' (Old English: a place of industry, ...

, in the

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district, in the county of

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. It is located between

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and Hammerwich. In 1891 the parish had a population of 139. The village consists of farms, housing, petrol station, offices and Pipehills Fisheries. There is an hourly bus service that runs through Pipehill from

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located ...

via

Walsall Wood Walsall Wood is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands county, England. It is located middway between the towns of Aldridge and Brownhills, as well as Walsall and Lichfield. History In the late-18th century and ...

and

Aldridge Aldridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, England. It is historically, a village that was part of Staffordshire until 1974. The town is from Brownhills, from Walsall, from Sutton Coldfield and from ...

. The nearest railway station is Lichfield City. The now disused South Staffordshire Line ran through the hamlet with a station at

. This station closed in 1965 and the line in 2002. Although the section to Brownhills and Walsall was closed in 1984. Pipehill also has a former

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on Walsall Road which is now in private ownership. The nearest churches is in Wall and Hammerwich.

History

Pipehill was formerly a

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in the parish of Lichfield St Michael, from 1866 Pipehill was a civil parish in its own right, in 1894 the parish was abolished and merged with Wall and Lichfield St Michael.

References

Sources

Townships: Wall with Pipehill , British History OnlinePipe Hill – Lichfield LorePipehill FisheriesWall
Hamlets in Staffordshire Former civil parishes in Staffordshire Lichfield District {{Staffordshire-geo-stub