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Dist:0.1km<br/>Bridge carrying A5013 road over the former GNR Stafford - Uttoxeter line, west of Stafford Common Station, closed to Passengers on 4th December 1939. The line survived for freight and for special servicemens trains until final closure to all regular traffic on 5th March 1951, the last train over the line being an SLS special in March 1957. The line east of Stafford Common Station was lifted in 1959 but the remainder was retained for use by engineers in connection with electrification work on the West Coast Main Line. This stub was finally taken out of use in December 1975.
©Tim Marshall
Dist:0.2km<br/>Stafford Cemetery has two almost identical Chapels of Rest.
©Simon Huguet
Dist:0.2km<br/>Old Soldiers grave
©Alf Beard
Dist:0.2km<br/>War Graves at Stafford Cemetery near the centre of the square
©Chris Shaw
Dist:0.3km<br/>Graves of the fallen who are at rest
©Alf Beard
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©Derek Crawley
Dist:0.3km<br/>A miscellany of graves amongst mature trees make this a pleasant place for Staffordians to walk and remember their loved ones. The rather grand memorial is to the Corcoran family, by way of a contrast the almost insignificant white stone to its right is one of the numerous WW1 War Graves marked with the standard Commonwealth War Graves Commission markers that are scattered throughout the cemetery.
©Simon Huguet
Dist:0.3km<br/>The C19th cemetery includes this group of War graves from WW2. They are mainly Allied airmen, including some Poles and Canadians, but the graves nearest the camera, to judge by the names appear, to be German. United in death. There are also a number of graves from WW1, presumably of those who died of wounds after being re-patriated to 'Blighty', but these are scattered across the cemetery rather than grouped together
©Simon Huguet
Dist:0.3km<br/>The old Town Cemetery is split into two by the old track of a former branch railway. This now forms a well used footpath and cycle way.
©Simon Huguet
Dist:0.3km<br/>Eccleshall Road Cemetery bordering on to Doxey Marsh
©Derek Crawley
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Reserve is managed by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. It is a mixture of wet grassland and ponds around the River Sow and a stream called The Darling. It has a remarkable amount of wildlife: plants birds and mammals -including otters, despite the paths across it being very heavily used by the public and their dogs. The new houses at Creswell Manor can be seen in the distance.
©Simon Huguet
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©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking across the Common from the Stone Road side. The Commons Registration Act 1965 defines common land as ‘land subject to rights of common (as defined in the Act) whether those rights are exercisable at all times or only during limited periods’, and ‘waste land of a manor not subject to rights of common’. Common land generally has open access rights for the public. Stafford Common extends to 62 ha.(approx 150ac.) and is regularly used for horse shows and car boot sales, hosts cross country running races and is well walked by local residents. It is also used for grazing cattle and horses. The trees to the right, along the southern edge of the Common, follow the line of the old Stafford to Uttoxeter branch railway. There was a small station, called Stafford Common, near the white buildings on the horizon where the track also sent out a spur to serve the nearby saltworks.
©Simon Huguet
Dist:0.4km<br/>Growing alongside former Stafford - Uttoxeter railway.
©Tim Marshall
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking across the frozen pond into Doxey Marshes nature reserve from the cemetery
©Simon Huguet

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