Loggerheads, Staffordshire

Loggerheads
Loggerheads  Loggerheads shown within Staffordshire
Population	4,480 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	SJ739358
District	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Nr. Market Drayton
Postcode district	TF9
Dialling code	01630
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Stone
List of places UK England Staffordshire

Coordinates: 52°55′09″N 2°23′21″W / 52.9192°N 2.3893°W / 52.9192; -2.3893

Loggerheads is a village and civil parish in north-west Staffordshire, England, on the A53 between Market Drayton and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Name

The village takes its name from that of the public house, which used to be known as The Three Loggerheads (meaning "The Three Fools") ^[2] and is now simply The Loggerheads.^[3]

History

The village is close to the border with Shropshire and Cheshire. It has a Telford postcode and a Shropshire address, but is governed by the Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in Staffordshire.

Loggerheads was home to the Cheshire Joint Sanatorium, a tuberculosis sanitorium, which stood in the 250 acres (100 ha) Burntwood woodland. It was opened in the 1920s and the last two patients were discharged in October 1969. It was believed at the time that the fresh air was an effective treatment for the disease and patients were sometimes put outside in their beds and encouraged to breathe in the air. The premises stood empty for a few years until Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council purchased the site for redevelopment in 1977.^[4][5]

The Burntwood, part of the Blore Forest, was once a large oak woodland but is now predominantly coniferous. The oak trees were removed to make way for the quicker growing softwoods which are of more commercial value.

The village of Ashley, Staffordshire is adjacent. The village has a large number of listed buildings.^[6]

Schools

• The Hugo Meynell Primary School
• St Mary's School Mucklestone: website

Other places nearby

• Market Drayton
• Whitmore
• Woore
• Croxton
• Eccleshall
• Mucklestone

External links

Media related to Loggerheads, Staffordshire at Wikimedia Commons

• Whats On in and around loggerheads
• Loggerheads Community Information Shop
• The Turner Hodgkiss Community Nature Reserve

References

Ceremonial county of Staffordshire
Unitary authorities	Stoke-on-Trent
Boroughs or districts	Cannock Chase East Staffordshire Lichfield Newcastle-under-Lyme South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Tamworth
Major settlements	Biddulph Burntwood Burton upon Trent Cannock Cheadle Eccleshall Fazeley Hednesford Kidsgrove Leek Lichfield Newcastle-under-Lyme Penkridge Rugeley Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Burslem Fenton Hanley Longton Stoke Tunstall Stone Tamworth Uttoxeter See also: List of civil parishes in Staffordshire
Rivers	Anker Blithe Churnet Dane Dove Manifold Mease Penk Sow Swarbourn Tame Trent Wheelock
Canals	Birmingham & Fazeley Caldon Lichfield Shropshire Union Staffs & Worcestershire Trent & Mersey Wyrley & Essington
Topics	Flag Museums Schools Grade I buildings Grade II* buildings Windmills High Sheriffs