Four Ashes, Staffordshire

Four Ashes is a village in the civil parish of Brewood and Coven, in the district of South Staffordshire in Staffordshire, England, located about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Cannock, 7 miles (11 km) north of Wolverhampton and 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Walsall.

Four Ashes
The Four Ashes, at Four Ashes, now closed
Four Ashes Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ9108
Civil parish	Brewood and Coven
District	South Staffordshire
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stafford
Postcode district	ST19
Dialling code	01902
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Cannock Chase
List of places UK England Staffordshire 52.6728°N 2.1264°W / 52.6728; -2.1264

The village was served by a station on the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line of the Grand Junction Railway.^[1] The station closed in 1959 although the railway line still runs past the village.

There is another hamlet in South Staffordshire called Four Ashes between Enville and Six Ashes. Four Ashes Hall is a 17th-century house and estate in that village, formerly open for conferences and weddings, which has been in the same family for 350 years.^[2]

References

1. "Four Ashes Railway Station, near Brewood". Staffordshire Past-Track. Staffordshire County Council. 2003. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
2. "Four Ashes Hall". Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.