Shenstone, Staffordshire

Shenstone, Staffordshire
Shenstone, Staffordshire
	St John the Baptist, Shenstone
	Shenstone, Staffordshire Location within Staffordshire
Population	7,359 (2011)
OS grid reference	SK108044
Civil parish	Shenstone;
District	Lichfield ;
Shire county	Staffordshire ;
Region	West Midlands ;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Lichfield
Postcode district	WS14
Dialling code	01543
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Tamworth ;
	List of places UK England Staffordshire 52°38′13″N1°50′28″W / 52.637°N 1.841°W

Last updated April 22, 2024

Shenstone is a village and civil parish ^[2] in The Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England, located between Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield. The parish also contains the village of Stonnall.

Transport

Shenstone is very well served with National Express West Midlands service X3 to Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and Birmingham along the Birmingham road. Chaserider service 36 operates through the village connecting to Walsall, Aldridge and Lichfield.

The railway station in the village is served by the Cross-City Line and offers connections to the West Coast Main Line at Lichfield Trent Valley and the Chase Line at Aston for services to Wolverhampton, Walsall, Cannock, Rugeley and Rugeley Trent Valley for the West Coast Main Line. There are also services to Redditch and Bromsgrove as well as Birmingham New Street. The village also is the only settlement in Lichfield District to have an active railway station after the two stations in Lichfield.

The village is also situated next to the M6 Toll which offers road connections to Stafford, Wolverhampton, South Staffordshire, Brownhills, Cannock, Tamworth and Coleshill. It also offers connections to the M6 Motorway and M42 Motorway. The village is also near Watling Street which connects from Holyhead in Wales to London. The village is also near the main Chester Road between Brownhills and Leamington Spa.^[3]

Education

The village is served by Greysbrooke Primary School on Barnes Road. A previous incarnation of the school was located on Birmingham Road, on the land currently occupied by the Greysbrooke cul-de-sac. Shenstone Lodge School lies on the Birmingham Road approximately 1⁄2 mile (800 metres) south of the village.

Interests

Shenstone was formerly the manufacturing home of the Norton Motorcycle. David Garside, a mechanical engineer who had developed a twin-rotor Wankel motorcycle for BSA, joined NVT to help establish production of the Norton Rotary bikes. The old factory still remains on the outskirts of the village, however has been taken over by Elbit Systems and is the site of regular protests.

The village is served by four public houses: The Fox & Hounds, The Railway, The Plough, and The Bull's Head.

Demography

The village had an estimated population of 2,234. The ethnic make-up of the village was 97% White, 2% Asian, and 1% Other ethnic. The religious makeup of the village was 62.7% Christian, 35.1% No Religion, 1% Muslim, 0.8% Sikh and 0.2% Hindu.^[4]

Notable people

Actress Helen Baxendale grew up in the village.

Henry Sanders, curate of Shenstone from 1755 to 1770, was author of The History and Antiquities of Shenstone, described as "a model parish history, containing elaborate accounts of the local manors, hamlets, farms, genealogies, and assessments".^[5]

History

Shenstone is mentioned in the Domesday Book and its population described as quite large.^[6]

Related Research Articles

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The South Staffordshire Railway (SSR) was authorised in 1847 to build a line from Dudley in the West Midlands of England through Walsall and Lichfield to a junction with the Midland Railway on the way to Burton upon Trent, with authorised share capital of £945,000. It was supported by the newly-formed London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the Midland Railway, giving each company access to important areas. It completed its main line in 1849. As collieries in the Cannock region rose in importance, it built a second main line from Walsall to Rugeley, as well as numerous short spurs and connections to lines it intersected. Colliery working in the Cannock area expanded enormously, and mineral traffic carryings increased in step.

Rushall is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, England. It is centred on the main road between Walsall and Lichfield. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book but has mostly developed since the 1920s. Rushall was historically a part of the county of Staffordshire before it was incorporated with much of the old Aldridge-Brownhills Urban District into the modern-day Walsall district.

The Midland Railway branches around Walsall were built to give the Midland Railway independent access to Wolverhampton, and to a colliery district at Brownhills. The Midland Railway had a stake in the South Staffordshire Railway giving it access to Walsall, and the Walsall and Wolverhampton Railway (W&WR) was opened in 1872. At first the W&WR was independent and neutral, but it was acquired by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), and then sold by that company to the Midland Railway.

The Cannock Chase Railways were mineral lines which served the collieries and many parts of Staffordshire. The branch lines and sidings branched off the local mainlines including the Grand Junction Railway, Chase Line, South Staffordshire Line and Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line. The main junction on the railways was Norton Junction. This junction connected the lines from Walsall and Hednesford to Wolverhampton and Rugeley Trent Valley for the local collieries and the mines in the towns of Brownhills, Burntwood, Chasetown, Penkridge and Cannock.

References

↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
↑ "Names and codes for Administrative Geography". Office for National Statistics. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
↑ Hodgkiss, Samuel (21 January 2022). "The Staffordshire village named one of most desirable places to live in UK". burtonmail. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
↑ "Shenstone (Staffordshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
↑ Seccombe, Thomas (1897). "Saunders, Henry" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 325.
↑ "Domesday Book of William the Conqueror".

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[1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

[2] "Names and codes for Administrative Geography". Office for National Statistics. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2009.

[3] Hodgkiss, Samuel (21 January 2022). "The Staffordshire village named one of most desirable places to live in UK". burtonmail. Retrieved 12 August 2022.

[4] "Shenstone (Staffordshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 12 August 2022.

[dnb00-5] Seccombe, Thomas (1897). "Saunders, Henry" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 325.

[6] "Domesday Book of William the Conqueror".

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