Burntwood Heritage Trail and Blue Plaques
Chasetown
Hammerwich Hospital
Chasetown Gas Works
Site of The Old Vicarage. Built in 1911 for the Rev. George Drury. St Anne’s Church sold 1979
Site of ‘The Staffordshire Knott Pub’. Built by 1862. Used as a venue for various friendly society meetings
Zion Hill Primitive Methodist Chapel
Site of No. 4 Pit of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company. Known as Fours Mount. Opened in 1854. Disused by 1883
St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church
Chasetown Police Station. Originally built 1873. Rebuilt 1963. New Station built 2004
Site of The Greyhound Pub. Closed in 1963
The Mining Institute. Opened 1in 1913. Closed as a college in 1987
Site of The Clock. Originally erected in 1902 as a Boer War memorial. Original clock knocked down by a lorry in 1967
Chasetown developed after the first coal mine was sunk in 1849
Site of Wesleyan Chapel known as Trinity Methodist Church. Built 1864. Closed 1977.
Site of Chasetown Institute. Built 1888 on land donated by the Cannock Chase Colliery Company. Closed 1986.
Site of Old Market Hall. Operating as a cinema by 1914
Site of Old Market Hall. Operating as a cinema by 1914
The Uxbridge Public House existed by 1856. Used as a mortuary
Three pairs of cottages were built in Church Street circa 1854
St Anne’s Church built 1865. The first Church of England to be lit by electricity 1883
Site of Chasetown First School. Built 1911. Closed 1999
Site of No. 4 Pit of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company. Known as ‘The Uxbridge’ and later ‘The Fly’. Opened 1852. Closed 1940
Site of No. 1 Pit of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company. Known as ‘The Marquis’. Opened 1849. Closed 1856.