Amenities
Rugeley has a modern swimming pool and leisure centre, opened 2006 on Burnthill Lane. Rugeley has also benefitted from a skate park being built in Hagley Park.
Rugeley has a reasonably sized town centre which boasts an outdoor market 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It also has an indoor market and a shopping centre of sorts called the Brewery Street Arcade. Rugeley has a number of well known high street names like Boots, Argos, Greggs and Morrisons.
Residents of the town benefit from their proximity to Cannock Chase and indeed there is now a heritage trail funded by the National Lottery linking the town to Hednesford and Cannock with excellent disabled access. The trail is now complete and contains numerous notice boards highlighting the town's history.
Rugeley also has a state-of-the-art health centre off Sandy Lane, a replacement for its predecessor on Horsefair, there is now a modern care home on the site of the old surgery. Technically, two separate surgeries coexist there with chairs in the waiting room oriented one of two ways towards the plasma screen that informs patients of their appointment, there is also the Aelfgar Surgery in Taylors Lane.
The town also has the Rugeley Rose Theatre which is a theatre and community centre in Taylors Lane and recording studio, Abbeysound, housed in a former convent in Heron Street, which is also home to Rugeley Snooker & Poker Clubs
Rugeley is well served by sports clubs, playing home to two cricket clubs (Rugeley C.C. and Trent Valley C.C.), several football clubs and Rugeley Rugby Club, as well as Rugeley Rifle Club which offers some of the best indoor and outdoor ranges in Staffordshire, catering for .22 and air gun target shooting. The Lea Hall Social Club underwent extensive renovation between 2005 and 2011 and serves Rugeley residents with a variety of facilities including cricket and football pitches, tennis courts and a crown bowling green. Etching Hill Tennis Club is well known in the area for producing talented young players.
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