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Farewell and Chorley

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St Bartholomew's Church, Farewell
St Bartholomew's Church, Farewell

Farewell and Chorley is a civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. The villages of Farewell and Chorley, that make up the parish, lie 3 or 4 miles north-west of the City of Lichfield. The parish council is a joint one with Curborough and Elmhurst.Farewell Priory was founded by Roger de Clinton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, (1129 – 48). The parish church of St Bartholomew was rebuilt in brick in 1745, with the exception of the stone chancel. There was further restoration in 1848 when the church was re-roofed. The church is a Grade II* listed building for its surviving medieval fabric and fittings.

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Maple Hayes
Maple Hayes

Maple Hayes is late 18th century manor house, now occupied by a special needs school, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building. In 1728 a farmhouse stood at Maple Hayes. When the owner William Jesson died in 1732 the estate was shared by his daughters. In 1786 his great nephew sold the estate to George Addams a wine merchant of Lichfield. Addams built a new manor house on the site in 1794. In a plain Georgian style the house was of three storeys, five bays and a central porched entrance, and with single-storey wings. Addams sold in 1804 to John Atkinson (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1828) and thereafter the house had a series of owners and tenants including Sir Thomas Fremantle Bt, his brother in law Sir James Fitzgerald Bt, and from 1851 Samuel Pole Shawe (High Sheriff in 1855). In 1884 Henry Cunliffe Shawe sold the house and 450 acres (1.8 km2) of the estate to Albert Octavius Worthington ( High Sheriff in 1889) of the Burton on Trent brewery company Worthington & Co. Worthington extended the estate and enlarged and improved the house about 1884. The wings were raised to two storeys and bay windows added, and new a southern wing and a northern service wing were created. The estate was broken up and sold in 1950. In 1951 the house was acquired by Staffordshire County Council as a boarding facility for King Edward VI School (Lichfield). In 1981 it was sold to become, and remains occupied by, the Maple Hayes School for Dyslexics.

Hammerwich railway station
Hammerwich railway station

Hammerwich railway station is a disused station on the South Staffordshire Line. It opened in 1849. It closed as part of the Beeching Axe in January 1965. The station was built and served by the South Staffordshire Railway, which later became London, Midland and Scottish Railway (through amalgamation of the London and North Western Railway). This was one of the three closed stations on this route that remained open beyond the closure of the South Staffordshire route as part of the Burton-Wolverhampton line that fell, also as part of the Beeching Axe, less than a year later. Goods traffic continued to pass here until March 1984, when the line was closed to through traffic. The section through here remained open to serve a Charringtons fuel oil terminal at Anglesey Sidings (near Brownhills) thereafter, until it also closed in 2001 - since then the line has been mothballed and officially marked 'out of use' by Network Rail. It is being preserved for the future re-opening of the railway line between Walsall and Lichfield. The old station platforms have been demolished, but the station house still stands and is used as a private residence. The station footbridge is also accessible to the public and safe to use.The station served the village of Hammerwich and was also the nearest station for Burntwood which is under 2 miles away. And also served the small village of Muckley Corner which was only half a mile east. In 2019, a local group named the Burntwood Action Group made a bid to convert the disused line into a leisure greenway to connect to Chasewater and link up with the recently opened greenway at Brownhills. However, the bid was rejected by Lichfield District Council due to lack of clarity.