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Great Haywood
is a
village in central
Staffordshire,
England, just off the
A51 about four miles from
Rugeley.
Great Haywood lies on the
River Trent, where the Trent is met by its
tributary, the
River Sow. The village is also the site of a significant junction of the English inland
canal network,
Haywood Junction, where the
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal meets the
Trent and Mersey Canal. The waters around the village are widely regarded by guidebooks as some of the most attractive on the network.
There are two churches, each of which has an attached school. St. Stephen's was designed by
Thomas Trubshaw, and became the centre of a
parish in
1858. St. John the Baptist's
Catholic church was originally built in
Tixall, about three miles away, as a private chapel to Tixall Hall, which was owned by the Aston family. When the estate was sold to Earl Talbot, the church was dismantled and rebuilt in Great Haywood. The marks made on the blocks to allow reassembly can still be seen inside the church.
There was originally a mill and a brewery in the village, but both have been closed down and demolished, commemorated by the names of the roads where they once stood (Mill Lane and Brewery Lane). Following a fatal automobile accident in 1905, the mill pond was drained and the road straightened.
The village was home to the newly married
Edith Tolkien, wife of famous author
J. R. R. Tolkien, from March
1916 to February
1917. He stayed with her in her
cottage (Cottage 1, Gipsy Green, on the Teddesley Park Estate) near the village during the winter of
1916, while recuperating from
trench fever. The surrounding landscape was said to be an inspiration for his early literary works about
Middle-earth. At the cottage he began work on what would become
The Silmarillion. Nearby is a place called
Norbury, which may relate to the "
Norbury of the Kings" that appears in
The Lord of the Rings.
Great Haywood was served by a
railway station which was opened by the
North Staffordshire Railway on
June 6,
1887.
In
August 2002 advertisements were placed in the national press for an "
hermit" to take up residence on the Great Haywood Cliffs above the nearby
Shugborough estate, ancestral home of
Lord Lichfield. Fifty-five people applied, and
Ansuman Biswas was chosen as hermit. Shugborough also serves as the headquarters of Staffordshire county's arts management team.
Great Haywood is the site of
Essex Bridge, one of the largest surviving
packhorse bridges in the country which stands over the river Trent near
Shugborough Hall. It borders
Cannock Chase, designated an area of outstanding natural beauty since 1958.
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