Location
Great Wyrley consists of two South Staffordshire wards, "Great Wyrley" and "Great Wyrley Landywood," the latter being home to the slightly more Southern area of Landywood. However, the settlement of Little Wyrley lies within the parish of Norton Canes--a nearby village.
Great Wyrley lies just under two-and-a-half miles south of Cannock town centre, just under two miles east of Cheslyn Hay, and six-and-a-half miles north of Walsall town centre.
In former times the town was a mining village — The Great Wyrley Colliery — with metalworking in outlying areas. The Wyrley and Essington Canal passes nearby.
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