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The Cannock Chase murders (also known as the A34 murders, the Babes in the Ditch murders and the Half-Day murders [2] [3]) were the murders of three girls aged between five and seven in Staffordshire, England, between 1965 and 1967. [4]
Cannock Chase, often referred to locally as The Chase, is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase National Landscape , an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and much of it is managed by Forestry England for its important ecology and for recreational use.
Cannock Chase is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. It is named after and covers a large part of Cannock Chase, a designated National Landscape. The council is based in the town of Cannock. The district also contains the towns of Hednesford and Rugeley, as well as a number of villages and surrounding rural areas.
The Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery (grid reference) is on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England. The cemetery contains nearly 5,000 burials from both the First and Second World War. The burials are mainly German and Austrian nationals with a very small number of Ukrainians.
Council House (now Cannock Chase Technical College) High Green: Council house: Mid-18th century: 15 June 1951 1060217: Council House (now Cannock Chase Technical ...
At first the village was simply known as Cannock Chase due to its proximity to the nearby forest, it was known as Chasetown by 1867. The first pit was sunk by the Marquess of Anglesey in 1849, when the Hammerwich Colliery opened at the base of Chasewater reservoir . [ 2 ]
Huntington is a civil parish and former mining village in Staffordshire, on the outskirts of Cannock Chase. It lies on the A34 road just north of Cannock and is surrounded by woodland. The village had an estimated population of 3,720 in 2004, [ 1 ] increasing to 4,536 at the 2011 Census. [ 2 ]
McClean leased pits from the Marquess of Anglesey and formed the Cannock Chase Colliery Company in 1859. In 1871 the rail line linking the Norton Branch and the Uxbridge Colliery was built. This line, now used by Chasewater Railway, involved the building of a causeway across the Crane Brook valley at the western end of the reservoir. Subsidence ...