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Brewood refers both to a settlement, which was once a town but is now a village. The Norman Domesday Book documented the village as 'Breude', The British word 'briga', which appears in modern Welsh as 'bre'. This is the most common of a number of Celtic place-names signifying a hill
The old Roman road, Watling Street, stretching from Londinium across the Roman Province of Britannia Superior to Wroxeter and later Chester, runs one mile to the north of the village as the A5
Location: 11miles south of Stafford
- Type:
- Landmark