Hammerwich
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Hammerwich is a small village and civil parish in the Lichfield District, in Staffordshire, England. It is southeast of Burntwood.
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Place details
- Locality
- Lichfield
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Hammerwich Collage.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- From top left: Hammerwich Mill; Hall Lane; St John Baptist Church; Hammerwich railway station
- UK place.official_name
- Hammerwich
- UK place.shire_district
- Lichfield
- UK place.shire_county
- Staffordshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Lichfield
- UK place.post_town
- Burntwood
- UK place.postcode_district
- WS7
- UK place.postcode_area
- WS
- UK place.dial_code
- 01543
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SK065075
- UK place.population
- 691
- UK place.population_ref
- (Census 2011)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Lichfield
- Population
- 3818
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- Commons category
- Hammerwich
- OS grid reference
- SK065075
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Name
- Culture
- Anglo-Saxon archaeology
- See also
- References
- External links
Hammerwich is a small village and civil parish in the Lichfield District, in Staffordshire, England. It is southeast of Burntwood.
==Name== The name may derive from hamor (Old English: a hammer) and wīc (Old English: a place of industry, specialist agriculture or trading), indicating a smithy or metal-working site.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hammerwich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.