Cheslyn Hay is a former mining village in south Staffordshire, between Cannock and Walsall.
Station Street is the main street with some small shops.
A major employer in the village is B.S. Eaton Ltd, a manufacturer of concrete products. The company operates a fleet of distinctive orange trucks.
The former Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station closed in 1965. A new station at Landywood opened in 1989, the station also serves the adjacent villages of Cheslyn Hay and Great Wyrley (The former Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station closed in the 1960s). The LNWR also operated an earlier halt at Landywood which closed on 1 January 1916.
Before World War II there was a cinema at the top of Rosemary Road, on the site much later occupied by Barts Motors.
The housing stock has been grown significantly in each post war decade, with suburban expansion into surrounding fields.
The old Primary School was situated on the site bounded by Hatherton Street, Pinfold Lane, Hill Street and High Street. It was constructed circa 1883 and demolished in the 1990s and the land used for new housing. An additional modern building on the opposite side of Pinfold Lane was used for school meals and gym.
The village is now served by two primary schools (Glenthorne primary school and Cheslyn Hay primary school) and by one secondary school Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community High School.
The Hawkins family were a prominent family in the area in the 19th century.
During the 19th century the area was know colloquially as the Wyrley Bank (in the local dialect Wyrley Bonk).
Read more about Cheslyn Hay: Notable Residents, Schools
Famous quotes containing the word hay:
“The symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year’s hay with the fresh life below. It grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground.... So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)