Burntwood

Burntwood
Staffordshire
Location
Grid reference:	SK0509
Location:	52°40’59"N, 1°55’12"W
Data
Population:	26,049  (2001)
Post town:	Burntwood
Postcode:	WS7
Dialling code:	01543
Local Government
Council:	Lichfield
Parliamentary constituency:	Lichfield
Website:	Burntwood Town Council

Burntwood is a town in Staffordshire, lying within Cannock Chase, some 4 miles west of Lichfield. The town had a population of 26,049 at the time of the 2011 census. Burntwood expanded in the nineteenth century around the coal mining industry, which is little in evidence today.

Samuel Johnson, the famous man of letters and of Lichfield by birth, opened an academy in nearby Edial in 1736.

What is reckoned to be Britain's smallest park, Prince's Park, is located next to Christ Church on the junction of Farewell Lane and Church Road.

In September 2009 it was announced that a Burntwood man, Terry Herbert, had discovered a hoard of Saxon treasure with a metal detector in a field in the adjoining village of Hammerwich. Known as the Staffordshire Hoard, it is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold yet found.

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