Great Chatwell Explained

Official Name:Great Chatwell
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Coordinates:52.7278°N -2.3065°W
Os Grid Reference:SJ794145
Civil Parish:Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard
Shire District:South Staffordshire
Shire County:Staffordshire
Region:West Midlands
Country:England
Post Town:NEWPORT
Postcode Area:TF
Postcode District:TF10
Dial Code:01952
Constituency Westminster:Stafford

Great Chatwell is a small village within the civil parish of Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard, in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. It lies on the border with Shropshire, around 1mile north-west of Blymhill.

The name presumably derives either from nearby St. Chad's well at Chadwell or from the Old English for Ceatta's well or stream'.[1]

The village contains a number of notable buildings. A white cottage was formerly a telephone exchange, reputedly the last manual exchange in England. Opposite the Red Lion public house is the former Cock Inn, the back wall of which is ancient and thought locally to have once formed part of a monastery. Beside this is the grand 19th-century arched entrance to Chatwell Court. A short distance to the north-east of the village can be found the well-preserved remains of a brick kiln. At the south of the village are the sheds of a substantial factory farm.

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  1. Ekwall, E., 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names', Oxford, 1960.