Caverswall is a village and parish in Staffordshire, to the south east of Stoke-on-Trent. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. Stoke-on-Trent ( often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city in Staffordshire, England which forms a linear Conurbation almost 12 miles (19 It is built near the source of the River Blithe.
Located near to the village square are St Peter's Church of England Aided School, St. Peter's Church, St. Filumena's Catholic Church and Primary School and the Red House public house. In the middle of the square a set of stocks can be seen. Stocks are devices used since Medieval times for Public humiliation, Corporal punishment, and Torture.
Caverswall Castle may date from a Saxon manor house, but the fortifications date from a licence to crenellate (royal permission to fortify) granted in November 1275, although there may have been an earlier application in 1230. Crenellation (or crenelation, also known as castellation) is the name for the distinctive pattern that frames the tops of the walls of many medieval Castles The castle remains were in-filled by a house in 1615 and the former moat has been landscaped. A moat is deep broad Trench, usually filled with Water, that surrounds a structure installation or town normally to provide it with a preliminary line of [1] It is privately owned.
Foxfield Light Railway is based approximately half a mile away from the village. This is unrelated to the Foxfield railway station in Cumbria.
References
- ^ Davis, Philip (November 13, 2007). Caverswall Castle. The Gatehouse. Retrieved on 2008-01-27. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
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