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Forsbrook | |
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Village | |
| Coordinates: 52°58′15″N 2°03′18″W / 52.97084°N 2.05505°W | |
| Country | England |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Population (2011[1]) | |
| • Total | 5,095 |
Forsbrook is a village in Staffordshire, around three miles southwest of Cheadle and situated on the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands.
It is an old village and is mentioned in the Domesday Book, with the rather unflattering description as waste ground.
The village derives its name from the Old English Fotes-broc - a brook or ditch. . The brook flowed through the village square, where it was crossed by a wooden pedestrian bridge and a ford for horses and vehicles, until it was culverted in 1932.[2]
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Historical Society Blythe Bridge & Forsbrook Millennium Calendar 2000 AD: February picture