35 Facts About Penkridge

Penkridge is a Town and civil parish in South Staffordshire District in Staffordshire, England.

Penkridge has a railway station on the West Coast Main Line railway next to the Grade I listed medieval church.

Penkridge is a parish unit within the East Cuttleston Hundred of Staffordshire.

The ancient parish of Penkridge, defined in 1551, although it existed in much the same form throughout the Middle Ages, was made up of four distinct townships: Penkridge itself, Coppenhall, Dunston, and Stretton.

Penkridge became a civil parish in the 1830s and in 1866 was shorn of the three smaller townships, which became separate parishes.

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Penkridge is in the district of South Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire.

Development of Penkridge has been closely linked to its relationship to major routes.

The Penkridge section became part of the major stagecoach routes linking London and Birmingham with Manchester and Liverpool and is subsumed into the A449 road.

Today Penkridge is grazed on its eastern side by the M6 motorway, the main route between London and the north-west of England and Glasgow.

Penkridge is part of the Stafford UK Parliamentary constituency, currently represented by the Conservative Theo Clarke.

However, Penkridge area is a part of South Staffordshire district.

Penkridge is covered by a Non-metropolitan county two-tier system of local government:.

Early human occupation of the area around Penkridge has been confirmed by the presence of a Bronze or Iron Age barrow at nearby Rowley Hill.

Penkridge's church was of central importance to the town from Anglo-Saxon times and the Norman conquest did not change this.

Large areas surrounding Penkridge were placed by the Norman kings under Forest Law, a savage penal code designed to protect the ecology and wildlife for the king's enjoyment.

The manor of Penkridge was passed on through the Blund family and later other families of lay landlords.

Much of the Penkridge area was cultivated under the open field system, although the actual field names are not documented until 16th and 17th centuries, as they were about to be enclosed.

Penkridge now became enmeshed in the meteoric career of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, a key figure in Edward VI's regency council.

Penkridge's lands were forfeit to the Crown, the extensive estates at Penkridge among them.

Penkridge manor entered into a limbo, prolonged by Anne's insanity.

The Fulke Greville who inherited Penkridge in 1606 was a poet and statesman.

Penkridge served both Elizabeth and James I, who gave him Warwick Castle as a seat and elevated him to the peerage as the 1st Baron Brooke.

In 1666, the township of Penkridge had 212 households and the rest of the parish about a hundred, giving a total population of perhaps 1200 to 1500.

Penkridge itself seems to have had a fairly stable population for the century from 1851 to 1951: a decline relative to the country as a whole, but not a collapse.

Penkridge owed much to its transport links, which steadily improved.

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Penkridge survived until 1812, although, his wife died childless in 1781.

Penkridge was elevated to the peerage as Baron Hatherton, a title which remains with the head of the Littleton family to the present, and became an active member of the House of Lords.

Penkridge strongly promoted education in the area, paying for a National School in Penkridge and another at Levedale, and for clothing for some of the school children.

Penkridge owned coal mines at Great Wyrley, Bloxwich and Walsall; limestone quarries and brickyards in Walsall that were used to build much of the town; hundreds of residential and commercial properties; gravel and sand pits, stone quarries in many places.

Penkridge was now very favourably placed on a truly national motorway network.

Penkridge has its own historical stocks and cells remain in the town centre.

Town has several pubs, and there are numerous sports clubs in Penkridge including cricket, football, rugby union and tennis clubs.

In terms of television, Penkridge is served by BBC Midlands Today and ITV Central, both of which are based in Birmingham.

Many residents in Penkridge receive their signals from the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station, but some use The Wrekin transmitting station, near Telford, to obtain a watchable picture.

Penkridge has three first Schools, one middle school and two high schools .