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The listed buildings in this area include churches with memorials in the churchyards and other related structures, houses and associated structures, buildings forming part of HM Prison Stafford, a former windmill, a road bridge, a former public house, the remains of Stafford Castle, a former hospital, schools, a former library, a boundary post ...
Stafford: Stafford: Military: Located in the attic floor of the Ancient High House, history and memorabilia of the Staffordshire Yeomanry: Tamworth Castle: Tamworth: Tamworth: Historic house: 11th-century Norman motte-and-bailey castle with late medieval Great Hall, Tudor chambers and Victorian suit of receptions rooms Letocetum / Wall Roman ...
William Howard was the 1st Viscount of Stafford in the 17th century, and owned the land on which the current school is built. He was convicted of treason and executed in 1680, wrongly so, as it is viewed by the Roman Catholic Church. The Church therefore beatified him in 1929, and he became known as Blessed William Howard.
Rowley Hall Hospital in Rowley Park is private and run by Ramsay Healthcare, but offers some NHS treatment. [42] The town receives primary health care from the South Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Policing is provided by Staffordshire Police, headquartered in Weston Road. Its former headquarters in Cannock Road is giving way ...
Brick made by H Doulton & Co. of Rowley Regis, displayed in the Black Country Living Museum. The brick is made from the local red clay, Etruria marl, which when fired at a high temperature in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere takes on a deep blue colour and attains a very hard surface with high crushing strength and low water absorption.
Kelly's Directory of Staffordshire, 1896 has the name as Oldhill and states that it is an ecclesiastical parish formed on 26 August 1876 from the civil parish of Rowley Regis in the Kingswinford division of Staffordshire. [1] Old Hill was historically in the urban district and later county borough of Rowley Regis, in the county of Staffordshire.
Shugborough Park, Colwich, Stafford: Courtyard: 1803-1806: 12 December 1977: 1273324: Upload Photo: Temple of the Winds at Shugborough Hall to North East of the House Colwich, Stafford: Garden Temple: 18th century
The borough hall continued to serve as the main offices of the borough council for much of the 20th century and became the main offices of the enlarged Stafford Borough Council when it was formed in 1972, which also used the offices of the former Stafford Rural District council in Newport Road and held its meetings at the Guildhall.