Woodseaves is a village in

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

, England. It lies in the

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High Offley High Offley is a small village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It lies 3 miles southwest of the small town of Eccleshall and about 1 mile west of the village of Woodseaves, both on the A519. Woodseaves is the largest settlement in th ...

and is situated on the A519 (

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) road and lies at the south-west end of the B5405 road, which leads to

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. Nearby are the villages of Gnosall and Norbury, the hamlets of Knightley and High Offley, and the small town of Eccleshall. The

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of the village is between and above sea level. The centre of the village is the top of a small hill, relative to the adjacent countryside, and the roads into and out of the village are almost all sloping away from the village.

Amenities and features

The village contains a

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, a

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, a village hall which is linked to a

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club with two full size and well maintained snooker tables, and a

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which had 83 pupils in 2007-8.Woodseaves Primary School
/ref> The village hall is home to a number of evening events, such as "keep fit" classes, a craft club, an "over 55s" club, t'ai chi, and a fortnightly

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. The village is represented by one snooker and two billiards teams competing in the Stafford and District Billiards and Snooker League. A

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team also represent the village, playing their home games at Knighton Social Club. The village has had three

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s — ''The Plough'' (now closed, converted to residential) and ''The Cock Inn'', both of which are situated along the A519 road. A third, ''The Reform Tavern'', which also lay on the main road, between the other two pubs, closed soon after the Millennium and is now a private residence. The southern part of the village, on the A519, is known as Littleworth. Formerly a separate

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, it is now part of Woodseaves. ''The Plough'' is situated in Littleworth.

Canal

One kilometre southwest of the village is the

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. A deep cutting on the canal has the name of Woodseaves but this is not taken from the name of the village but from another Woodseaves, a hamlet about two miles to the south of

Market Drayton Market Drayton is a market town and electoral ward in the north of Shropshire, England, close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is on the River Tern, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" (c. 1868) and earlier simply as "Dray ...

in Shropshire. There are deep cuttings however near to Woodseaves (Staffordshire) at

Loynton Loynton is a hamlet on the A519 near the villages of Norbury, and Woodseaves in Staffordshire, England. It lies in the civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territ ...

and

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. Underneath a nearby canal bridge, over which the A519 road passes, on the

side of Woodseaves, stands possibly the world's, and certainly Britain's smallest

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, its presence goes unnoticed by people crossing the bridge, but it is visible via the towpath that runs under the bridge on the south side of the canal.

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{{authority control Villages in Staffordshire Borough of Stafford

Amenities and features

Canal

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