Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

190 Trails 37 POIs 4 Peaks 1 Campsite 5 Picnic Sites 2 Viewpoints
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Description

Cannock Chase is a 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 Cannock Chase local government district. It is a former Royal forest. There are a number of visitor centres, museums and waymarked paths, including the Heart of England Way and the Staffordshire Way. There are also accessible trails to enable people to experience the health benefits of Cannock Chase, such as The Route to Health. Additionally, there are many unmarked public paths. 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.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Castle Ring
  • Chase Walk
  • Cross Chase Walk
  • Deercote Slade
  • European walking route E2, UK, West Midlands
  • Heart of England Way
  • Lady Walk
  • Marquis's Drive
  • Pepper Slade
  • Ride
  • Rugeley Road
  • Staffordshire Way (Cannock Chase South)
  • Staffordshire Way (Rushton Spencer - Cannock Chase)
  • The Way for the Millennium
  • Tolkien Trail Cannock Chase Walk
  • Tolkien Trail Great Haywood Walk
  • Two Saints Way
  • Walton -on-the-Hill to Brocton Doorstep Walk
  • Wolseley Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Badgers Hill
  • Berry Hill
  • Birches Valley Cafe
  • Birches Valley Forest Centre
  • Cannock Chase Visitor Centre
  • Castle Ring
  • Go Ape!
  • Lower Cliff
  • National Trust Gift Shop
  • Oat Hill
  • Rawnsley Hill
  • Rugeley Road Cafe
  • Satnall Hill
  • Shugborough Hall
  • Shugborough Hall Cafe
  • Spring Slade Lodge
  • Stile Cop
  • The Butts
  • The Shimla Palace
  • Working Farm

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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Bs0u10e01 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cannock_Chase_Path.jpg CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)