Great Chatwell

Great Chatwell
Cottages in Great Chatwell
Great Chatwell Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ794145
Civil parish	Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard
District	South Staffordshire
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWPORT
Postcode district	TF10
Dialling code	01952
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	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 1 mile (1.6 km) 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.

See also

• Listed buildings in Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard

Notes

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

References

• Raven, Michael, 'A Guide to Shropshire', Michael Raven, 2005, 0906114349.
• Raven, Michael, 'A Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country', Michael Raven, 2004, 0906114330.

External links

Media related to Great Chatwell at Wikimedia Commons