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Little Aston is located in the southeast of Staffordshire.. Little Aston is contained within four corners, formed by local landmarks: Blake Street Station rail bridge in the east, by Little Aston Golf Club's grounds to the west, the Little Aston Severn Trent sewage treatment works to the north and the Rosemary Hill Road/Thornhill Road traffic island in the south.
Little Aston Hall is a Georgian country house in Little Aston, Staffordshire, England. The original hall building is Grade II listed. It was constructed around 1730 by Richard Scott of nearby Great Barr Hall, in a Georgian style with a park and lake. The house was restyled by architect James Wyatt for William Tennant in the early 19th century.
Little Aston Golf Club was founded in 1908 when Harry Vardon was commissioned to convert 136 acres of land into the golf course, the design commissioned by Harry Vardon remains largely unchanged to date. [1] The land had previously formed part of the estate of Little Aston Hall. [3]
It borders the nearby district of Lichfield in Staffordshire. [3] The villages of Mill Green, Little Aston, Stonnall and Thornes are close, [4] only separated by the A452/Chester Road. [5] The name is also used for a suburb of Birmingham. A notable amenity in the hamlet is the nearby golf course on Stonnall Road. [6]
The milepost is on the north side of Little Aston Lane. It is in cast iron with a triangular plan and a sloping top. On the top is "SHENSTONE" and the faces are inscribed with the distances to Watford Gap, Tamworth, Little Aston, Aldridge, and Walsall. [54] II: Milepost at SK 112 048
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It then runs through Aldridge and the Staffordshire village of Little Aston before heading south-east to Four Oaks, to the north of Sutton Coldfield. Due to its course following part of the ring roads around Wolverhampton and Walsall it has overlapping sections with the A41, A4150, A449, A4148, A34 and A461 roads.
After the Reformation, much of the land was in the ownership of the Manor of Shenstone based at Little Aston Hall. [citation needed] In the late Middle Ages, Stonnall was a staging point on the coach route between London and Chester. The Welsh Harp and the Swan Inn provided service to travellers on Old Chester Road. [citation needed] Upper ...