Brewood today

A todays parish of Brewood and Coven has the people of around 7,500 inside quadruplet distinct villages (Brewood, Coven, Bishop's Wood & Coven Heath). A Shropshire Union Canal passes through the western edge of Brewood, & Belvide Reservoir, which feeds the, canal is nearby.

Brewood has threesome schools; St. Mary & St. Chad's CE (VC) First School, with around 150 pupils; Brewood Middle School, with astir 4 hundred students; & St Mary's Catholic Primary School, with a select few Ninety toddlers on the roll.

There is a Brewood Civic Society and a Rotary Club of Brewood. A village come 2nd in the South Staffordshire Right Saved Village 2005 challenge. the village has the Village Project Statement, & is using an creative person to produce a landmark graphics.

Jimmy Lea, of the glam rock group Slade, lives in the village.

History

A old Roman road, Watling Street, runs 1 mile northward of the village. The market charter was granted to Brewood by King Henry III, in 1221. A was an annual Brewood Wake up.

Richard Hurd, later the Bishop of Worcester, was educated at Brewood Grammar School.

Touching a village is Boscobel House, said to own been one of a many stores within England to have sheltered King Charles II.

Churches

A church is Saint Mary, the Virgin & Saint Chad; built of stone between 1150 and 1250, on the site of an sooner wooden Mercian church. "Thorough" restoration was carried call at the late 1870s. A noted tower & spire have a peal of eight bells.

Both heavy examples of 'Early English' church come to exist as noticed on text. Foremost, a Roman Catholic church of 1840, built in Brewood under a counsel of Pugin. Second, a ticket church nearby at Bishop's Wood.