| Woodseaves | |
|---|---|
 TheCock Inn on the A519 | |
  Woodseaves Location withinStaffordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ799254 |
| • London | 150 miles (241 km) |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STAFFORD |
| Postcode district | ST20 |
| Dialling code | 01785 |
| Police | Staffordshire |
| Fire | Staffordshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
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Woodseaves is a village inStaffordshire, England.
It lies in thecivil parish ofHigh Offley and is situated on theA519 (Newport-Newcastle-under-Lyme) road and lies at the south-west end of the B5405 road, which leads toGreat Bridgeford. Nearby are the villages ofGnosall andNorbury, the hamlets ofKnightley and High Offley, and the small town ofEccleshall. Theelevation of the village is between 125 metres (410 ft) and 140 metres (460 ft) 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.
The village contains apost office, aMethodistchapel, avillage hall[1] which is linked to asnooker club with two full size and well maintained snooker tables, and aprimary school which had 83 pupils in 2007-8.[2] The village hall is home to a number of evening events, such as "keep fit" classes, a craft club, an "over 55s" club,tai chi, and a fortnightlywhist drive. The village is represented by one snooker and two billiards teams competing in the Stafford and District Billiards and Snooker League. ASunday league football team also represent the village, playing their home games atKnighton Social Club.
The village has had threepublic houses —The Plough (now closed, converted to residential) andThe 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 asLittleworth. Formerly a separatehamlet, it is now part of Woodseaves.The Plough is situated in Littleworth.
One kilometre southwest of the village is theShropshire Union Canal. A deepcutting 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 ofMarket Drayton in Shropshire. There are deep cuttings however near to Woodseaves (Staffordshire) atLoynton andGrub Street.
Underneath a nearby canal bridge, over which the A519 road passes, on theNewport side of Woodseaves, stands possibly the world's, and certainly Britain's smallesttelegraph pole,[citation needed] 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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