Cannock Chase and Cank Wood, Western Mixed
Author(s): Jeremy Lake
Cannock Chase and Cank Wood is a landscape dominated by its history as a former forest and chase and by the presence at its centre of the South Staffordshire Coalfield. It forms an area of higher ground, with the towns and large villages of the Black Country rising out of the lowlands of Shropshire and Staffordshire to the west. There are clear distinctions in this area between the core of Cannock Chase, where smallscale farmsteads and smallholdings are predominant, and the northern, eastern and western parts of the area where large arable-based farms developed. Of the area, 45% is urban, concentrated to the south and including Wolverhampton, Walsall and West Bromwich.
- Report Number:
- 71/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Landscape Farmstead Historic
