Cresswell, Staffordshire

Cresswell
The Izaak Walton pub
Cresswell is located in Staffordshire
Cresswell
Cresswell
Location within Staffordshire
OS grid referenceSJ 9757 3934
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townStoke-on-Trent
Dialling codeST11
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52°57′05″N 2°02′15″W / 52.951434°N 2.037614°W / 52.951434; -2.037614

Cresswell is a hamlet in Staffordshire, England. It is approximately one mile SE of Blythe Bridge and has a population of approximately 300. From the 2011 census the population of this hamlet has been included with Draycott-in-the-Moors.

The "Izaak Walton" public house and restaurant is named after the seventeenth-century fisherman Izaak Walton, whose book The Compleat Angler is still in publication today. Walton was born in Stafford, and legend has it that he fished in the River Blithe, which is near the pub.

During the English Civil War Staffordshire saw a great deal of conflict. The local manor house Paynsley Hall was first held for Charles I, then garrisoned by Parliamentarian forces before being destroyed.[1]

Although it is still a rural area, the hamlet is the home of the Blythe Colour Works, which was established to produce under-glaze colours for the pottery industry. Cresswell is also the home of Blythe Cricket Club.

Cresswell formerly had a railway station on the Crewe to Derby Line, but, although trains still pass through the hamlet, there are now no stations between Blythe Bridge and Uttoxeter. In the twentieth century there was also a short line from Cresswell to Cheadle (Cheadle Branch Line).

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) The site of the hall is protected as a scheduled ancient monument. Although little masonry remains, it is significant as an example of a moated site.