Oakley Hall, Staffordshire

Oakley is a hamlet in Staffordshire, England. It is within Mucklestone ward of Loggerheads Parish. Oakley Hall, a former seat of the Chetwode family, is a well known attraction.

Norton in Hales is a village and parish in Shropshire, England. It lies on the A53 between the town of Market Drayton and Woore, Shropshire's most northeasterly village and parish. Staffordshire is to the east of the parish and Cheshire to the west. Also within the parish is the village of Betton and hamlet of Ridgwardine. The parish church is Saint Chad's. Also within the village are Norton in Hales Church of England Primary School, the Hind's Head Inn, and a large playing field. The monument to Frances, Lady Cotton (d. 1606) in St Chad's was designed by Inigo Jones around the year 1611. Her husband Rowland Cotton, who commissioned the tomb, was associated with the court of Prince Henry, as was Jones. The tomb is the earliest known work of Inigo Jones.Tunstall Hall is a Grade II* listed building, built in about 1732, formerly a girls' school, and now a residential home offering specialist care in dementia.The engineer Samuel Owen, who later emigrated to Sweden where he became an industrialist, was born at Norton in 1774.

Betton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Norton in Hales, in the Shropshire district, in the county of Shropshire, England.

Norton-in-Hales railway station was a station on the North Staffordshire Railway between Stoke-on-Trent and Market Drayton. The station was opened in 1870 and was closed in 1956. The station building and trackbed is now a private residence including the station masters house.

Audley's Cross is a cross sited in Blore Heath, Staffordshire to mark the spot on which James Touchet, Lord Audley was killed at the battle of Blore Heath in 1459. A cross was erected on the spot where Audley was reported to have been killed after the battle, and replaced with the current stone cross in 1765, which was renovated in 1959 on the 500th anniversary of the battle. The inscription on the cross reads: On this spot was fought the Battle of Blore Heath 1459. Lord Audley, who commanded the Lancastrian forces was defeated and slain. This monument was restored by Tyrley Parish Council to mark the 500th anniversary of the battle

The Battle of Blore Heath was a battle in the English Wars of the Roses. It was fought on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely populated area of farmland, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and close to the village of Loggerheads, Staffordshire.

Tyrley was a small settlement in Staffordshire, England (now in Shropshire), now lost, and a former civil parish. It was located immediately south of Market Drayton. The name means "clearing by the River Tern" It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it belonged to William Pandolf, and was the site of a castle later (52°54′00″N 2°28′45″W). Tyrley (Tirley) Castle was located alongside the present day A529. "The castle built after the conquest by the Pantulfs" is believed to date back to 1066 and later rebuilt in stone in the thirteenth-century. The castle was succeeded by a newly built Manor house in the 1280s which fell into disrepair, with an eighteenth-century farmhouse built upon the site which remains to this day. In the Domesday Book Tyrley was listed under Shropshire. It was transferred to Staffordshire probably between 1099 and 1135. Tyrley was historically in the Staffordshire part of the ancient parish of Drayton in Hales, which also included the villages of Almington and Hales. The Staffordshire part of Drayton in Hales became the separate civil parish of Tyrley in 1866. The parish formed part of Blore Heath Rural District from 1894 to 1932, when it was added to Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District. In 1965 the part of the parish west of the Shropshire Union Canal (including the site of the lost settlement and Tyrley Castle) was transferred to the parish of Sutton upon Tern in Shropshire. In 1974 it became part of Newcastle-under-Lyme non-metropolitan district. In 1971 the parish had a population of 753. On 1 April 1984 the civil parish was abolished and its area was transferred to the new parish of Loggerheads. The name survives in the Tyrley Canal Cutting, Tyrley Wharf and Tyrley Locks on the Shropshire Union Canal. Tyrley Wharf served as a small dock above a flight of five locks. In 1911 it was used to load milk churns to be taken from the Peatswood Estate to Cadbury's factory at Knighton.

Almington is a small village in Staffordshire, England. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) east-northeast of Market Drayton by road, to the northwest of the villages of Hales and west of Blore Heath. Historically the manor and Almington Hall belonged to the Pandulf family, and much later, the Broughton family.

Hales is a village in Staffordshire approximately 2 miles east of Market Drayton. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Loggerheads. There is an Anglican church dedicated to Saint Mary.

Ridgwardine is a small hamlet in Shropshire in the civil parish of Norton in Hales. It is made up of Ridgwardine Manor, Upper Farm, and Manor Farm.

Blore Heath was a rural district in Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1932. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Market Drayton rural sanitary district which was in Staffordshire (the Shropshire part becoming Drayton Rural District). It covered the parishes of Ashley, Mucklestone and Tyrley. It was abolished by a County Review Order in 1932, and was added to the Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District.

The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal was a canal in England which ran from Nantwich, where it joined the Chester Canal, to Autherley, where it joined the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. Forming part of a major link between Liverpool and the industrial heartlands of the Midlands, the canal was opened in 1835, and merged with the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company in 1845, which became the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company in the following year.