Forsbrook

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Forsbrook is a village situated in on the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands. In the village there are two public houses: The Butchers Arms and The Roebuck but it originally had four public houses: The other two were called The Miners Arms which is now a private residence and The Bulls Head which was demolished for road widening. The village also has a sandwich shop,spar supermarket, a couple of hairdressers, flower shop and various other shopping outlets. The Tiny Primitive Methodist Chapel celebrates its 150th anniversary in July 2006.

Forsbrook is contiguous with Blythe Bridge, with which it shares a Parish Council, and Blythe Marsh.

Strange Fact about Forsbrook The village derives its name from the Old English Fotes-broc - a brook or ditch.

The brook flowed through the village square, where it was crossed by a wooden pedestrian bridge and a ford for horses and vehicles, until it was culverted in 1932.^[1]