Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England UK ???????? - Hiking, Walking - Part 2
Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England UK
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Cannock Chase Forest is one of the best value family day's out that the Midlands has to offer.
With a children's play area, woodland walks to suit all ages and abilities, and the best family and mountain biking trails in the region, you will not be stuck for something to do.
If you don't have bikes you can hire them, bring a picnic or choose lunch at the café and come rain or shine you will all go home having had a fantastic forest adventure.
Cannock Chase is a woodland and mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Chase gives its name to the local government district.
Cannock Chase is between Cannock, Lichfield, Rugeley and Stafford. It is a mixture of natural deciduous woodland, coniferous plantations, open heathland and the remains of early industry, such as coal mining.
Cannock Chase was made an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) on 16 September 1958. Much of the area is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Despite its relatively small area, the chase has a remarkable variety of landscape and wildlife.
The wildlife includes a herd of about 800 fallow deer. There are a number of rare and endangered birds, like the migrant Nightjars. A feeding station attracts many species, including Brambling, Yellowhammer and Bullfinch.
Efforts are underway to increase the amount of heathland on the chase, reintroducing shrubs such as heather in some areas where bracken and birch forest have crowded out most other plants. The local flora also includes several species of Vaccinium, including the Cannock Chase Berry (Vaccinium ×intermedium Ruthe).
On the Chase's north-eastern edge can be found Shugborough Hall, ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield. At its southern edge are the remains of Castle Ring, an Iron Age hill fort, which is the highest point on the Chase. Several glacial erratic boulders are also found on the Chase, remnants of glaciation. One is mounted on a plinth.
Since 2006, the forest has been used as an open air music venue as part of the Forestry Commission nationwide Forest Tour, with acts such as The Zutons, The Feeling, Status Quo and Jools Holland playing in a forest clearing.
The area gained notoriety in the late 1960s when the Cannock Chase murders made national headlines; the remains of three young girls were found buried on the Chase after going missing from areas along the A34 road between there and Birmingham. Raymond Leslie Morris, a motor engineer from Walsall, was found guilty at Stafford assizes of one of the murders in 1968 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is still in prison over 40 years later and one of the country's longest serving prisoners.
Activities at Cannock Chase Forest
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4 walking trails
4 cycling trails
Go Ape
Forest Segway
Orienteering
Dog activity trail
Play areas
BBQ area
Picnic areas
Bike hire
Café
Dogs welcome
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Cannock Chase AONB
Cannock Chase AONB
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Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England UK????????- Hiking and Walking - Part 1
Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England UK
_____________________________________________
Cannock Chase Forest is one of the best value family day's out that the Midlands has to offer.
With a children's play area, woodland walks to suit all ages and abilities, and the best family and mountain biking trails in the region, you will not be stuck for something to do.
If you don't have bikes you can hire them, bring a picnic or choose lunch at the café and come rain or shine you will all go home having had a fantastic forest adventure.
Cannock Chase is a woodland and mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Chase gives its name to the local government district.
Cannock Chase is between Cannock, Lichfield, Rugeley and Stafford. It is a mixture of natural deciduous woodland, coniferous plantations, open heathland and the remains of early industry, such as coal mining.
Cannock Chase was made an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) on 16 September 1958. Much of the area is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Despite its relatively small area, the chase has a remarkable variety of landscape and wildlife.
The wildlife includes a herd of about 800 fallow deer. There are a number of rare and endangered birds, like the migrant Nightjars. A feeding station attracts many species, including Brambling, Yellowhammer and Bullfinch.
Efforts are underway to increase the amount of heathland on the chase, reintroducing shrubs such as heather in some areas where bracken and birch forest have crowded out most other plants. The local flora also includes several species of Vaccinium, including the Cannock Chase Berry (Vaccinium ×intermedium Ruthe).
On the Chase's north-eastern edge can be found Shugborough Hall, ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield. At its southern edge are the remains of Castle Ring, an Iron Age hill fort, which is the highest point on the Chase. Several glacial erratic boulders are also found on the Chase, remnants of glaciation. One is mounted on a plinth.
Since 2006, the forest has been used as an open air music venue as part of the Forestry Commission nationwide Forest Tour, with acts such as The Zutons, The Feeling, Status Quo and Jools Holland playing in a forest clearing.
The area gained notoriety in the late 1960s when the Cannock Chase murders made national headlines; the remains of three young girls were found buried on the Chase after going missing from areas along the A34 road between there and Birmingham. Raymond Leslie Morris, a motor engineer from Walsall, was found guilty at Stafford assizes of one of the murders in 1968 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is still in prison over 40 years later and one of the country's longest serving prisoners.
Activities at Cannock Chase Forest
___________________________
4 walking trails
4 cycling trails
Go Ape
Forest Segway
Orienteering
Dog activity trail
Play areas
BBQ area
Picnic areas
Bike hire
Café
Dogs welcome
Subscribe for new videos every week
#GoApe #CannockChaseForest #England #UK #Stafford #VisitUK #Hikking #Daytrips
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Cannock Chase Brindley Heath Staffordshire Walk
A short walk through Brindley Heath (Cannock Chase), an area of outstanding beauty and scientific interest and home to fallow deer, rare birds, flora and fauna.
An area of 26 sq miles (68Km Sq) between Hednesford and Rugeley.
Cannock Chase - Regional Odyssey - Midland Memories.
Midlands Memories - Staffordshire.
First featured on this video the once rural town of Cannock followed by the surrounding area known generally as the Cannock Chase district.
Starting with the Floral Festival and the Queen's Silver jubilee celebrations in 1977.
The odyssey goes back in time to the dim and distant past and yet it was only yesterday!
A Cannock Chase Odyssey is part of the 'Midland Memories Series'. This video is like an odyssey through time and the history of an area forming part of South Staffordshire in the central UK. Most of the area covered has changed almost beyond recognition but will be recalled by those of a certain age who treasure such memories. Once upon a time we were basically all rural peasants, living and working upon the land according to the rhythms and moods of Mother Nature. We look back as on a lost Elysium with small close communities shaped by the the landscape and topography.
Cannock Chase communities however, were founded mainly on the coal seams that happened to surface near by and so easy to mine. Now even that has passed by into history over the last thirty years or so. Mining was a dirty dangerous business, however the strong sense of bonding among the miners and their families facing a common danger is something rarely encountered today. Life has become easier certainly but not necessarily simpler or happier.
Cannock Chase also bears the now fading scars of two world wars. In this video we visit some of the camps that were set up to train the brave soldiers and airmen due to be sent away to a very uncertain future, this was in order to protect our future!
We can't live in the past, but that does not mean that we should not respect our past and our history. Some of us will nevertheless yearn hopelessly for what has been lost.
Enjoy this video in whatever way you can.
Music Track - The Enchanted Valley - YouTube Audio Library.
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Cannock Chase Brindley Heath Walk Staffordshire September 2010
A short walk through Brindley Heath (Cannock Chase), an area of outstanding beauty and scientific interest and home to fallow deer, rare birds, flora and fauna.
26 sq miles of unadulterated countryside (68Km Sq) between Hednesford and Rugeley.
Cannock Chase AONB
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2) Runaways- Silent Partner
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5) So Bueno The 126ers
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Places to see in ( Cannock - UK )
Places to see in ( Cannock - UK )
Cannock is the most populous of the three towns in the district of Cannock Chase in the central southern part of the county of Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England. Cannock lies to the north of the West Midlands conurbation on the M6, A34 and A5 roads, and to the south of Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Cannock is served by a railway station on the Chase Line. The town comprises four district council electoral wards and the Cannock South ward includes the civil parish of Bridgtown, but the rest of Cannock is unparished. Cannock forms part of the Cannock Built-up Area which also includes Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Hednesford, Huntington, Heath Hayes and Wimblebury.
Cannock is on a south-west facing slope, falling from the highest point on Cannock Chase (244 m) at Castle Ring, to about 148 m in the town centre and 111 m near Wedges Mills. The soil is light with a gravel and clay subsoil, and there are extensive coal measures. Cannock Chase German war cemetery is located nearby containing 4,885 German military dead from the First and Second World Wars. It is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Cannock is about 20 miles (30 km) by road north-north-west of Birmingham, 80 miles (130 km) south-south-east of Manchester and 130 miles (210 km) north-west of London. Cannock is 9 to 10 miles (14 to 16 km) by road from many of the nearest towns and cities (Aldridge, Lichfield, Stafford, Walsall, Willenhall and Wolverhampton), but Hednesford (2 miles (3 km)), Burntwood and Penkridge (5 miles (8 km)), Bloxwich and Brownhills (6 miles (10 km)) and Rugeley (7 miles (11 km)) are nearer.
Cannock is located close to the M6, M6 toll and M54 motorways. There is an extensive network of local buses radiating out from Cannock town centre. The town's main bus operator is Arriva Midlands, who operate the majority of services to and from Cannock bus station. Cannock railway station closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching Axe. It reopened in 1989 under British Rail and is part of the Rugeley - Cannock - Walsall - Birmingham line operated by London Midland. There are two trains per hour from the station to Rugeley, Walsall, and Birmingham. The journey time to Birmingham is around 45 minutes.
( Cannock - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Cannock . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Cannock - UK
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AONB (Cannock Chase in winter)
AONB (Aria of Outstanding Natural Beauty)
Cannock Chase, Staffordshire England
Muntjac Deer on Cannock Chase AONB
Barking (Muntjac) Deer. Recorded 1 hour after sunset near Castle Ring on Cannock Chase AONB, mid-February, 2012.
Animal Tracks and Signs Cannock Chase Ep6
Episode 6 of the Tracks and Signs videos, again taken on my favourite location in cannock chase, in a 2 hour walk.
My offer still stands if anyone would like to join me on one of my walks, you are welcome, just drop me a line.
Cannock Chase 4x4
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Cannock Chase is located between Cannock, Lichfield, Rugeley and Stafford. It comprises a mixture of natural deciduous woodland, coniferous plantations, open heathland and the remains of early industry, such as coal mining. The landscape owes much to the underlying Triassic bunter formations. Cannock Chase was designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) on 16 September 1958 and is the smallest area so designated in mainland Britain, covering 68 km2 (26 sq mi). Much of the area is also designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Despite being relatively small in area, the chase provides a remarkable range of landscape and wildlife, including a herd of around 800 fallow deer and a number of rare and endangered birds, including migrant nightjars. A feeding station at the Marquis Drive Visitors' Centre, sponsored by the West Midland Bird Club, attracts many species, including brambling, yellowhammer and bullfinch.
Efforts are underway to increase the amount of heathland on the chase, reintroducing shrubs such as heather in some areas where bracken and birch forest have crowded out most other plants. The local flora also includes several species of Vaccinium, including the eponymous Cannock Chase berry (Vaccinium × intermedium Ruthe). In January 2009, an outbreak of the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum was discovered on the chase, at Brocton Coppice. Various restrictions were put in place in an attempt to prevent its spread
Since the nineteenth century, sightings of Black Dogs, Werewolves, British big cats, UFOs, black-eyed children and even Bigfoot have appeared in the local press.
However no conclusive evidence has ever been produced verifying these claims, and they may best be thought of as forming part of local folklore.
The 1972 Labi Siffre album Crying Laughing Loving Lying features a track, written on Cannock Chase, and named after it.
Cannock Chase has also achieved national notoriety for its association with the sexual practice of dogging. This occurred in March 2004 when the ex-England footballer Stan Collymore was revealed in a News of the World investigation, to have regularly engaged in the activity at a car park near Anson's Bank.
Cannock Chase also has a darker side associated with it. In 2015 a woman came out to state she had been sexually abused from the age of 6 by senior politicians and other powerful members of society, often referred to as The Elite. She claims this took place in the woodlands of Cannock Chase, as well as other locations in the midlands. Nothing has been validated as of yet, and no case has been opened. (Taken from Wikipedia)
Cannock chase walks
Cannock chase walks on a Saturday afternoon.
UFO sighting? Rougeley Staffordshire UK
We saw something that might be a UFO in Rougeley, Saffordshire, back in 2014, it's right on the edge of Cannock Chase..
deer on cannock chase
Just a bit of footage I took two years ago while out on cannock chase.
Birds on Cannock chase
Feeding frenzy
Cannock Chase Walk - around Stile Cop, Upper Longdon & Armitage.
Today I did a walk around Cannock Chase, whilst exploring this 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' I took numerous photographs. I have compiled these photos into a video for your enjoyment.
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Cannock Chase Winter Wonderland
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Cannock Chase 3. Castle Ring Accounts. Bigfoots and Wolf Men
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