Cannock Chase: water colour painting
'Cannock Chase near Hatherton,' showing a group of birch trees.'E. Adveno Brooke.'
Carting bracken, Harts Hill, Cannock Chase
Two men and a horse-drawn wagon loaded with bracken near Harts Hill the north-west part of Cannock Chase. Bracken was gathered on the Chase and used for packing pottery.
Castle Ring Iron-age Hill Fort, Gentleshaw
Occupying the highest point on Cannock Chase at 795 ft (242 metres), this scheduled ancient monument, believed to date from the Iron Age, which covers the period from around 500 BCE to the arrival of ...
Charcoal burner, Whiston
'Charcoal Jack', an itinerant charcoal burner sitting outside his hovel, a simple shelter made out of a framework of wooden poles covered with turf. This somewhat damaged and faded photograph was taken ...
Children on Cannock Chase
This postcard photograph is believed to have been taken on Cannock Chase in the Hednesford area. The postcard was franked in Hednesford in 1906 or 1908 and sent to an address in Little Haywood. If anyone ...
Church Walk, Moddershall. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of Church Walk, Moddershall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Churnet Valley at Glenwood, Consall. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Churnet Valley at Glenwood, Consall, Staffordshire.
Commemorative stone, Hanchurch Hills
Engraved commemorative stone in the woodland at Hanchurch Hills picnic site.
The Inscription on the stone reads: "The Staffordshire County Council here records its thanks for this land given by the ...
Common Centaury, or Centaurium erythraea
This plant frequents dry banks, woodland clearings, gravel pits and other open places on sandstone heaths.
Flowering between June and October, it can grow up to 15cm in height.
This example was ...
Common Dog Violet, or Viola riviniana
You will find this common perennial plant in woods, and on hedgebanks, heaths and grassy hillsides.
Flowering between April and July, it can grow up to 20cm in height.
This example was found growing ...
Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
Winter scene including the Caldon Canal at Consall Mill, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Caldon Canal and Consall Mill, Consall Valley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall Steps. Photographed by William Blake.
Consall Steps at Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Coombes Valley, near Cheddleton
A north Staffordshire landscape photographed by William Blake of Longton. It is believed to show Coombes Brook flowing through Coombes Valley, near Cheddleton. The site is now a Royal Society for the ...
Cop Mere, near Eccleshall
A postcard view of Cop Mere, which is a natural, shallow lake formed following the retreat of ice after the last Ice Age, about 11,700 years ago, and is fed by the River Sow. The lake is a nature reserve ...
Cotton Dell
Cotton Dell is an area of woodland, 160 acres of which was purchased by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust in late 1999. The most notable rock feature in the Dell is Bill's Rock. It is part of local legend ...
Cotton Dell, Oakamoor
Cotton Dell is
an area of woodland, 160 acres of which was purchased by the
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust in late 1999. The most notable rock feature
in the Dell is Bill's Rock. It is part of local ...
Cotton Dell. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a stream and flowers. Taken at Cotton Dell, Staffordshire.