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{{Infobox UK place
 | official_name            = Caverswall
 | civil_parish             = Caverswall
 | country                  = England
 | region                   = West Midlands
 | coordinates              = {{coord|52.98342|N|2.07443|W|region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SJ951429)|display=title}}<!-- Note: WGS84 lat/long, converted from OSGB36 grid ref -->
 | os_grid_reference        = 
 | post_town                = STOKE-ON-TRENT
 | postcode_area            = ST
 | postcode_district        = ST11
 | dial_code                = 01782
 | constituency_westminster = [[Staffordshire Moorlands (UK Parliament constituency)|Staffordshire Moorlands]]
 | shire_district           = [[Staffordshire Moorlands]]
 | shire_county             = [[Staffordshire]]
 | hide_services            = Yes
 | population               = 971
 | population_ref           = (2011 census)
 | area_total_km2           = 
 | static_image             = Caverswall Village - geograph.org.uk - 167339.jpg
 | static_image_caption     = Caverswall square
 | website                  = 
}}

'''Caverswall''' is a village and [[parish]] in [[Staffordshire]], England, to the south west of [[Staffordshire Moorlands]].

In the middle of the 19th century there were about 1500 inhabitants. In the 1880s an urbanised part of the parish called East Vale was transferred to [[Longton, Staffordshire|Longton]], which was then an expanding industrial town.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The federation of the six towns |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol8/pp252-258 |website=BHO}}</ref>
The population of the civil parish at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] was 971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121738&c=caverswall+cp&d=16&e=62&g=6464998&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1449402743930&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=6 December 2015}}</ref>

On 1 April 1974 the civil parish was renamed from "Caverswall" to "[[Caverswall and Werrington]]",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/cheadle.html|title=Cheadle Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=31 October 2023}}</ref> on 1 April 1988 the parish of "Caverswall and Werrington" was abolished and split into "Caverswall" and [[Werrington, Staffordshire|Werrington]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/staffordshire%20moorlands.html|title=Staffordshire Moorlands Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=31 October 2023}}</ref>

== Etymology ==
The name Caverswall is thought to have its origins in the [[Saxon]] words ''Cafhere'', a personal noun, and ''Waelle'', which meant spring or well.<ref>{{cite book |first=M J W |last=Rogers |title=Caverswall In Old Picture Postcards |publisher=European Library,Zaltbommel Netherlands |year=1994 |isbn=90-288-5840-7}}</ref> By the time of the [[Domesday Book]] the village was called ''Caureswelle''.

== Around the village ==
[[File:St Peter's Church, Caverswall - geograph.org.uk - 167351.jpg|right|thumb|Church of St Peter]]
Near the village square are St Peter's Church of England Aided School, St. Peter's Church, St. Filumena's Catholic Church, St. Filumena's Primary School and a now disused Wesleyan Chapel. Also located on The Square is the Red House, a [[public house]]. In the middle of the square there is a large tree under which is a set of [[stocks]].

[[Caverswall Castle]] may date from a [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] manor house, but the fortifications date from a [[licence to crenellate]] (royal permission to fortify) granted in November 1275, although there may have been an earlier application in 1230. The castle remains were in-filled by a house in 1615, by Matthew Craddock from Stafford, and the former [[moat]] has been restored to encircle the castle. It is privately owned.

[[Foxfield Railway]] is based approximately half a mile away from the village and runs heritage Steam Traction along the former Branch line to [[Foxfield Colliery]].

== Notable people ==
* [[Robert Williams Buchanan]] (1841–1901) a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist; born locally.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle= Buchanan, Robert Williams |volume= 4 |page= 717 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[S. H. Burton]] (1919–2005), school teacher, college lecturer and prolific author of books about the [[West Country]]
==See also==
*[[Listed buildings in Caverswall]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Caverswall}}
* [http://www.caverswall.org.uk/ Caverswall Parish Home Page]
* [http://www.caverswall-castle.co.uk/ Caverswall Castle]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928174535/http://www.stpeters-caverswall.staffs.sch.uk/index.htm Caverswall Middle School]
* {{gbmapping|SJ951429}}

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{{Civil Parishes of Staffordshire Moorlands}}

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[[Category:Villages in Staffordshire]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Staffordshire]]
[[Category:Staffordshire Moorlands]]


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