Stapenhill is a suburban village and

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Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011, it had a ...

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in the UK. It was a small village owned by Nigel of Stafford as far back as 1086, however, this ancient parish area has long since been surrounded by new housing developments and gradually absorbed into the Burton urban area.''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.1406 Stapenhill was known for its brickyards in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several major music festivals take place every summer at

Catton Hall Catton Hall is a country house near the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire, within the civil parish of Catton. It gives its postal address as Walton-on-Trent although there was a village of Catton at one time. It is a Grade II* listed ...

, on the outskirts of the village. Summer bedding - geograph

Stapenhill Gardens is the epitome of Stapenhill. Its main feature is a giant artificial

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with all flowers planted in it. This represents the swans who have historically inhabited the Gardens, and also the wider immutability of life in general. Similarly, the local

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team is Stapenhill Swans. Stapenhill Gardens is also the location of the annual "Tulip Festival", an event unrivalled outside The Netherlands, although this has not run for several years. Current and former

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s and bars in the area include ''The Copper Hearth'' (now a Tesco supermarket), ''The New Inn'', ''The Punch Bowl'' (now a care home), ''The Barley Mow'' (new home of the BIS), ''The Crown'', ''The Grove'', ''The Dart'' (now closed), ''The Freehold Tavern'' (now a Chinese restaurant), ''The Plough'' (now demolished for housing), and ''The Elms''. Stapenhill is well known for its wide variety of shopping opportunities, ranging from major chain-stores to independent craft butchers. The primary retail centres are Main Street; Rosliston Road/Brackenwood Road area; and Short Street/Lincoln Road. Other local features include St Peter's

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church and a large

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. The main

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s in the area are Paulet High School and Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary Academy. Primary schools include Violet Lane Infants and Edge Hill Junior to the east, and to the south Waterside Junior and Short Street Infants merged in 2011 to become Riverview Primary. The village is east of the Trent, and thus was administered as part of

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from at least 1086 until the

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, when it passed into

as a result of boundary changes. The boundaries of the original ancient village were Rosliston Road, Cumberland Road, Short Street and Norfolk Road.

Notable people

Sydney Evershed Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed (13 January 1861 – 7 March 1937) was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898. Evershed was born in Stap ...

(c.1825–1903) a brewer and Liberal Party MP for Burton 1886–1900. He lived at Stapenhill from 1860 * William Henry Wesley (1841 in Stapenhill – 1922) an engraver, artist, astronomer and administrator, assistant secretary of the

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1875–1922. * Sir

(1861 in Stapenhill – 1937) a brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 *

Wallis Evershed Wallis Evershed (10 May 1863 – 8 May 1911) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1882 and 1884. Evershed was born in Stapenhill, the son of Sydney Evershed the brewer and MP for Burton. He was educated at Clifton C ...

(1863 in Stapenhill — 1911) an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1882 and 1884. *

Frank Evershed Frank Evershed (6 September 1866 – 29 June 1954)
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(1866 in Stapenhill – 1954) an English rugby player who played internationally for England between 1889 and 1893 and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire. *

Edward Evershed Edward Evershed (3 November 1867 – 18 February 1957) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1888 and 1898. Life Evershed was born in Stapenhill, now part of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire (then in Derbyshire), the so ...

(1867 in Stapenhill — 1957) an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1888 and 1898. * Geoffrey Bell MC (1896 in Stapenhill – 1984) an English cricketer and educationalist.

References

External links

Stapenhill Community Forum
{{Civil Parishes of East Stafford Civil parishes in Staffordshire Burton upon Trent

Notable people

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