Forsbrook
Forsbrook is a village in Staffordshire, around three miles southwest of Cheadle and situated on the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands.
Forsbrook | |
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Village | |
| Coordinates: 52.97084°N 2.05505°W | |
| Country | England |
| County | Staffordshire |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 5,095 |
It is an old village and is mentioned in the Domesday Book, with the rather unflattering description as waste ground.
The village derives its name from the Old English Fotes-broc - a brook or ditch. . The brook flowed through the village square, where it was crossed by a wooden pedestrian bridge and a ford for horses and vehicles, until it was culverted in 1932.
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