Great Chatwell

Great Chatwell
Cottages in Great Chatwell
Great Chatwell is located in Staffordshire
Great Chatwell
Great Chatwell
Location within Staffordshire
OS grid referenceSJ794145
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWPORT
Postcode districtTF10
Dialling code01952
PoliceStaffordshire
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52°43′40″N 2°18′23″W / 52.72775°N 2.30647°W / 52.72775; -2.30647

Great Chatwell is a small village within the civil parish of Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard, in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. It lies on the border with Shropshire, around 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of Blymhill.

The name presumably derives either from nearby St. Chad's well at Chadwell or from the Old English for 'Ceatta's well or stream'.[1]

The village contains a number of notable buildings. A white cottage was formerly a telephone exchange, reputedly the last manual exchange in England. Opposite the Red Lion public house is the former Cock Inn, the back wall of which is ancient and thought locally to have once formed part of a monastery. Beside this is the grand 19th-century arched entrance to Chatwell Court. A short distance to the north-east of the village can be found the well-preserved remains of a brick kiln. At the south of the village are the sheds of a substantial factory farm.

  1. ^ Ekwall, E., 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names', Oxford, 1960.