Peter's, Wolverhampton jointly. At the three-weekly courts, held by at least , business included not only the usual surrenders, admittances of tenants and payments of heriots and reliefs but also the presentment of offences within the lord's woods by the forester of Cannock, the forester of Rugeley and the rider equitator and the presentment of brewing and baking against the assize of bread and ale by the ale tasters of Cannock and Rugeley respectively. At a court of survey held in defining the bounds of the manor and leet and the customs of the manor it was stated that the 'oldholders' had timber rights on the Chase and might hunt the fox, the hare, and the roe there and hawk with a sparrow-hawk.
When an 'oldholder' died, one heriot was due for his holding, and his heir paid the equivalent of a year's chief rent when he entered upon the property. On the death of a copyholder a heriot was due for each messuage, with a year's rent from the heir or two years' rent from anyone who secured the property by purchase.
The heriot on each cottage was 6 d. No cottagers might serve as jurors at the great leet so long as there were sufficient freeholders, oldholders, and copyholders to serve. When the great court was held at Rugeley, the lord gave dinner there to all the tenants from Cannock who served on the jury, and similarly for the Rugeley tenants when the great court was held at Cannock.
All inhabitants might turn their cattle loose on the Chase all the year round and let them browse the hollies there in winter for a reasonable amercement. A carucate of land in Cannock worth 5 s. A virgate in Cannock was held of the king at some time before by Robert Trumwyn, as by his ancestors before him, possibly since the time of the Conqueror when it may have been held by Lewinus, by the service of keeping the Hay of Cheslyn within the royal forest of Cannock.
By Robert Trumwyn had been succeeded by William Trumwyn fn. John died in , with a son Humphrey, aged only nine years, to succeed him. John Birch of Leacroft, yeoman, occurs between and Birch owned the estate in Henry Birch owned land in Leacroft, some of which was in his own hands, including a house at the junction of the roads from Lichfield and Norton by the present canal bridge.
A long red-brick range with stone quoins, moulded cornice, and central pediment probably represents a lateth-century stable block. At its south end a barn with a gable-end facing the road carries a date tablet of An outhouse farther north has a tablet inscribed 'Dr. Another outhouse with an octagonal brick base may represent the remains of a dovecot.
A field south of the road was formerly known as Dovecot Meadow. Henry Plantagenet, as Duke of Normandy, granted 'Hedenedford' as pasture free from pannage dues to the local Cistercian abbey of Radmore c. A freehold in 'Edenesford' and elsewhere was held in by Roger son of Roger Trumwyn. Another plot of land in Hednesford, called 'le Plash', was held by Roger Trumwyn at his death in of his kinsman William Trumwyn of Cannock.
Richard Levett c. King Stephen gave land at 'Radmore' now Red Moor near the present hamlet of Cannock Wood to two hermits, who with others founded the Cistercian abbey there in Daniel Clewley. A plot of waste in Cannock Chase called 'Le Newehaye' was leased, with two other parcels of waste, in by the bishop to Sir Richard de Stafford and his wife Isabel, with the confirmation of the dean and chapter.
There are extensive gardens, stabling, and outbuildings. The rectory of Cannock belonged to a prebend in Penkridge collegiate church by the late 12th century. Despite the speedy renewal of the dispute, fn. Asaph in and started conducting burials there and taking the mortuaries. The rectory was leased out by the Penkridge prebendary in the late 12th century for a rent of 4 s. A tithe barn situated in a croft adjoining the church had disappeared by In the king had woodland 6 leagues long by 4 wide attached to his manor of Cannock and woodland 3 leagues by 2 leagues attached to the adjoining manor of Rugeley.
The chase, comprising the two bailiwicks of Trumwyn and of Puys or Rugeley , descended with the manors of Cannock and Rugeley, passing in to Sir William Paget fn. The area of woodland and heathland now known as Cannock Chase lies in the parishes of Cannock, Rugeley, Colwich Pirehill hundred , and Baswich.
With the creation of the bishop's chase of Cannock in , the former royal forest officials were replaced by those of the bishop. The chief wardenship of his free chase of Cannock as well as of the woods belonging to his barony of Haywood and Lichfield and of the parks already made or planned therein was given by Roger de Meuland —95 to Roger de Aston of Haywood and Bishton in Colwich parish Pirehill hundred.
Besides the hereditary chief warden and master of the game, there were two foresters of the chase, one for Cannock who by at least was described as the forester of Trumwyn, fn.
By there was no demesne in Cannock manor and all the land was held by tenants. The following open fields within the manor were mentioned at various times between c. It was stated in that the best land on Cannock Chase for sheep and crops, especially barley and turnips, lay on the west and north sides and around Hednesford, the soil being light as opposed to the gravelly undrained heathland to the south and east.
William Coleman and other men of Cannock in forcibly threw open certain pastures and meadows in Cannock inclosed by Ralph Bostock and Thomas Alport who had acquired them from Richard Biddulph.
Some 3, acres of land on Cannock Chase within the parish of Cannock were inclosed in under an Act of The lord's mill at Cannock was leased at a rent of 3 s. Cannock is 6 miles south-west of Rugeley. Cannock is 7 miles north of Willenhall.
Cannock is 8 miles north of Walsall. Cannock is 8 miles north-west of Aldridge. Cannock is 8 miles north of Darlaston. Cannock is 9 miles south-east of Stafford. Cannock is 8 miles north-east of Wolverhampton. Cannock is 9 miles west of Lichfield.
Cannock is 16 miles north of Birmingham. Cannock is 24 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent. Cannock is 28 miles south-west of Derby. Cannock is 30 miles north-west of Coventry. Cannock is 35 miles north of Worcester. Cannock is 38 miles west of Leicester. Cannock is 41 miles south-west of Nottingham. To add your comment, click on the link below. Gaza - south Staffs Staffs has been my home all my life. No better County in all the UK. Central to everything with the transport links via road or rail to anywhere in the UK easily.
True we don't have the nightlife of London, but Birmingham is on our doorstep with a wide choice of entertainment. One start would be to hand out free car stickers to all visitors at the gates to Alton Towers, saying for example, "Staffordshire a terrific County", or similar.
Emily Best Place in Cannock - The train station - it allows for easy access straight out of the town into Stafford or Birmingham - let's face it - a hospital furnace is a better place to be than in this town! Most famous thing about Cannock - Fred Pritchard, thank goodness OK so the buildings need you to use your imagination to understand the underlying concepts but hey - who can moan at a guy who is trying his hardest to regenerate an old mining town?
Go Fred!!! To my knowledge no-one who is born and bred in Cannock calls themselves a yam yam. For gods sake!
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