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Staffordshire, which will accommodate 1,400 pupils. There will be over 12 acres used for employment as well as a riverside country park and a new water sports leisure facility at the Borrow Pit Lake. There will also be added commercial development to the area. This new development will be a massive boost to the area and the whole new development will be low carbon.
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The town council also puts on a fireworks display during the last weekend of the school summer holidays, known as "Back to School with a Bang". A Christmas lights switch-on during
December includes a market and late-night opening of shops, with the local traders association joining in the organising
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Rugeley was an agricultural community for hundreds of years and held regular sheep, cattle and horse fairs. This reached its peak in the mid 19th century and lasting until the 1930s. The
Rugeley annual horse fair was known internationally and attracted trade from far and away. To this day there is a
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A Pagan conference happens on the May bank holiday every year. Staffordshire Pagan
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British. Much of the ageing population and their families are linked to the ex-mining communities, with an increasing proportion of the younger population being new to the area and associated with the services sector. As former mining towns, Rugeley
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Rugeley's future looks set to benefit from the recent closure and demolition of the power station. The
Brownfields site will be developed. This development has been earmarked to include 2,300 new homes as well as housing for the elderly. There will be a new All through school; the first in
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In 1709 Rugeley was hit with two disasters. One was a fire that ravaged the town (the town had been hit by a fire sixty years prior to this too, making this the second such disaster) and the other was when the Rising Brook which runs through the town broke its banks and flooded the town.
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The Lea Hall Social Club, which underwent extensive renovation between 2005 and 2011, serves
Rugeley residents with a variety of facilities including cricket and football pitches, a crown bowling green. There used to be tennis courts, but they are now gone and replaced with housing.
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Although smaller pits had existed beforehand, the town became a centre of industrial scale deep-shaft coal mining from the 1950s, to access similar coal seams to those under
Cannock Chase. The Lea Hall Colliery that opened in July 1960 was the first modern coal mine opened by the
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Chancel'. A school next to it is called Chancel School. Other churches within the Rugeley area include The Church of the Good Shepherd, Rugeley Community Church, Victory Church, The Church of the Holy Spirit and St Michael's Church.
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housing, such as the Pear Tree Estate. However, on the fringes of
Rugeley there is more affluence, and some of the older Georgian streets including the conservation area of Crossley Stone or waterfront properties along the
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Rugeley suffered an increase in unemployment when Lea Hall
Colliery closed in 1990. Following many years of demolition and regeneration, a number of large industrial units have been built on the Towers Business Park, a
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including the Brereton area suffer from a moderate level of social deprivation, with parts of the town consisting of council or ex-council house stock (such as the Springfield Estate and parts of Brereton) or former
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Between 1793 and 1967 Rugeley Grammar School provided selective secondary education for the town and also for Hednesford. Historical characters who were educated at RGS include the banker and railway promoter
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The town continues to benefit from the Trent and Mersey Canal on its eastern side which, since the popularity of canals as a leisure activity, brings additional tourism into the town. The canal runs from
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series of music events, with concerts held at Birches Valley Forest Centre, Rugeley. As with other Forest Live events it hosts different live acts from big name bands each year. Past acts have included
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Rugeley Rifle Club, catering to .22 and air gun target shooting, moved to its current location near the Town Station in 1971 and is noted for member Victoria Bradbury, bronze medallist at the
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opened a 700,000 sq ft fulfillment centre on the Towers Park, creating between 700 and 900 full-time jobs as well as generating a large pool of seasonal work around Christmas.
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and located close to the town centre on Lichfield Street. It is a Methodist/ United Reformed Church. Along with the main town centre Methodist church there is also one in the
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was held at Rugeley Leisure Centre. The third British Quidditch Cup took place on 19 and 20 March 2016, with 32 teams competing, and the winners were Oxford's team, the
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and built between 1849 and 1851 out of local stone. There is a Catholic primary school in the town dedicated to St Joseph as the Church is. The Parish is part of the
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was opened in 2007, to facilitate the development of new employment areas on the former colliery site and to reduce congestion in the town centre.
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main road in Rugeley town centre called Horsefair honouring this, as well as another street honouring the sheep fair.
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Fulfilment centre, which was built at the Tower Business Park. The centre permanently closed in March 3, 2024.
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from the event. As of 2018 the conference relocated to The Rose Theatre and become Witchfest Midlands.
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of 1086. This name is thought to be derived from 'Ridge lee', or 'the hill over the field'. In the
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line for passenger traffic. Rugeley now has two railway stations:
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the Lionheart. Rugeley was still relatively small at this point.
2519:"Development at former Rugeley Power Station site back on track"
1205:(1857β1907) English Roman Catholic priest and historical writer.
1156:(1777β1845) English barrister, banker and land owner, served as
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For many years up to 1980, Rugeley had its own newspaper: the
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1249:(born 1938) British Conservative Party politician, MP for
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1781:"Midlands News: 27.07.1962: Telephone Call via Telstar"
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with four services each way to and from Stafford and
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1799:"A warehouse changes a former mining town in the UK"
1273:(born 20 September 1973) Singer-Songwriter-Musician.
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2000:"Rugeley Power Station's 600ft chimney demolished"
1211:(1878β1946) was a British colonial administrator,
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1536:Directions to Towns & Cities close to Rugeley
1196:(1842β1921) British land owner, photographer and
1140:(1584β1646) Merchant adventurer, admitted to the
1079:. The Festival was cancelled in March due to the
1175:(1833β1923) English geologist, president of the
1031:Rugeley Snooker Club meets in Heron Court Hall.
2489:"1,700 Christmas jobs at Rugeley Amazon centre"
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836:Rugeley lies within the coverage areas of the
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2374:"First Rugeley Fringe Festival cancelled"
1213:Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands
2256:International Shooting Sports Federation
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2343:"First Rugeley Fringe Festival planned"
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1240:(1883β1967) was the 6th Anglican
1142:Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
1086:Cannock Chase is a venue for the
1012:church of Rugeley is named after
824:in Leicestershire, which carries
640:Rugeley Trent Valley lies on the
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2050:Jenkins, Paul (25 August 2023).
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872:on 94.6 FM is better received.
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805:cover Rugeley from studios in
490:St Augustine's Church, Rugeley
16:Town in Staffordshire, England
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818:Waltham transmitting station
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2132:"Church of Saint Augustine"
1737:Listed buildings in Rugeley
978:St Joseph and St Etheldreda
557:family, who live at nearby
90:OS grid reference
21:Human settlement in England
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1921:. Staffordshire Past Track
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1893:www.british-history.ac.uk
1863:www.british-history.ac.uk
1718:Western Springs, Illinois
1713:Rugeley is twinned with:
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998:Archdiocese of Birmingham
954:Grade II* listed building
467:Western Springs, Illinois
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2286:Etching Hill Tennis Club
2192:"About Heron Court Hall"
1940:Archives, The National.
966:Grade II listed building
952:. The present church, a
897:Staffordshire Newsletter
840:regional stations, like
539:, later Viscount Anson.
465:Rugeley is twinned with
2667:Staffordshire Moorlands
2166:Rugeley Catholic Church
1942:"The Discovery Service"
1294:Nearby towns and cities
875:The town is covered by
696:(going south-west) and
3128:Cannock Chase District
3123:Towns in Staffordshire
3060:Brereton and Ravenhill
3049:Cannock Chase District
2952:Wyrley & Essington
2493:www.expressandstar.com
2463:www.expressandstar.com
2252:"Championship Results"
1833:British History Online
1225:William Beaumont Burns
1209:Selwyn MacGregor Grier
1064:In 2016 and 2017, the
958:medieval parish church
925:Trent and Mersey Canal
594:Rugeley power stations
551:St. Augustine's Church
520:Trent and Mersey Canal
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428:Cannock Chase District
236:Postcode district
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1986:Angus & Robertson
1203:Ethelred Luke Taunton
1066:British Quidditch Cup
946:St Augustine's Church
773:before going through
700:(going North). These
674:Birmingham New Street
574:Edward Charles Blount
516:Industrial Revolution
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2747:Newcastle-under-Lyme
2652:Newcastle-under-Lyme
2610:Staffordshire Portal
2551:Rugeley Town Council
2196:Rugeley Snooker Club
1570:Newcastle-under-Lyme
1474:Blithfield Reservoir
1265:1992 Summer Olympics
1261:1984 Summer Olympics
1170:Thomas George Bonney
850:Capital Mid-Counties
737:, Staffordshire and
642:West Coast Main Line
631:Rugeley Trent Valley
174:Sovereign state
2993:Scheduled monuments
2988:Grade II* buildings
2683:(cities in italics)
2657:South Staffordshire
2618:Unitary authorities
2417:on 10 December 2022
2353:on 26 February 2020
1235:Wilfred John Simkin
1154:John Stevenson Salt
920:National Coal Board
907:The Hart of Rugeley
877:Cannock Chase Radio
846:Greatest Hits Radio
586:National Coal Board
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185:(2011 census BUASD)
2947:Trent & Mersey
2642:East Staffordshire
2226:Rugeley Rifle Club
2057:Express & Star
1242:Bishop of Auckland
1215:from 1935 to 1937.
1186:Newbury Racecourse
1070:Radcliffe Chimeras
1020:area of the town.
799:BBC Midlands Today
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302:UK Parliament
248:Dialling code
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2700:Burton upon Trent
2681:Major settlements
2593:Ceremonial county
2312:"Hawkesyard Golf"
1976:"Bonney, Charles"
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1301:Burton upon Trent
1287:George Pilkington
936:Church of England
826:BBC East Midlands
660:via Stafford and
566:Rugeley Town Hall
501:Rugeley Town Hall
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