Caverswall is a village and parish in Staffordshire, to the south west of Staffordshire Moorlands.
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The name Caverswall is thought to have its origins in the Saxon words Cafhere, a personal noun, and Waelle, which meant spring or well.[1]By the time of the Domesday Book the village was called Caureswelle.
Near the village square are St Peter's Church of England Aided School, St. Peter's Church, St. Filumena's Catholic Church, the Primary School and the Red House, a public house. In the middle of the square there are a set of stocks.
Caverswall Castle may date from a Saxon manor house, but the fortifications date from a licence to crenellate (royal permission to fortify) granted in November 1275, although there may have been an earlier application in 1230. The castle remains were in-filled by a house in 1615 and the former moat has been landscaped. [2] It is privately owned.
Foxfield Light Railway is based approximately half a mile away from the village and runs heritage Steam Traction along the former Branch line to Foxfield Colliery.
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