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Great place to ride. It's on my doorstep but definitely worth visiting no matter how far you are away.

may need to take detours due to festival dismantal or no access to other routes minor issue but amazing walk

lower cliff trail at cannock chase is fun and fast

Primarily served as a training facility during and after World War II. Closed in 1959, the base is no longer operational and has since been repurposed for civilian use.

This trig point (200m), the butt of so many jokes can be reached via several converging footpaths, the paths to the south and east offering a steeper route.

having just been in the area for 3 days and ridden all of these: Perry's blue, a new route post Commonwealth games, from the Birches visitor centre, is suitable for even the newest of MTB'ers - there is nothing technically hard. But there are some really fun berms even for experienced to enjoy and it has some good Red optional diversions as well. Follow the Dog is the next one up - a "light and fruity middling" Red - whilst some sections are steep, some are technical, some are loose/narrow/twisty - none are all 3 are at the same time. Suitable as a first time Red. And finally, Monkey is a proper hard red - some brutal sequential switchback climbs (Lung Buster), adverse camber rocky drops verging to "very dark oaky" red (Tom/Dick/Harry on Original Monkey). And the parts that are actually marked black are verging on Danny MacAskill.... Definitely not one for a first red.

The starting point for your Cannock Chase trail centre rides! Here you'll find maps of each route as well as crucial trail closures information, as they constantly need upkeep to keep them flowing sweet. Choose between the green-rated gravel road loop around the lakes, the new Perry's Trail blue-rated singletrack, or the red-rated trails Follow The Dog and Monkey Trail, with some very spicy black optional segments.

Diversions in place in on at least 3 ref routes- twist and shout steregasorous and aunt flow

if you dont like technical climbs or decents take follow the dog

And just as much fun, if not more, on a gravel bike!

Cracking views from up here. Choice of a few tracks running from this point. when your at the top look behind you too the right to spot 2 new off piste trails.

New additions to trails have opened in the last month or so! (May 2021) The blue has added some nice sections that give opportunity for progression with some easy berms and pump sections. The red some new jumps, berms and rock gardens at the start near the trail centre and birches valley car park

Fantastic place for MTB, either a day out with the family or a more focused riding day

Both Follow the Dog and The Monkey Trail are both graded red. However, the dog is pretty easy with only a few obstacles. Monkey is much more deserving of the grade with with technical climbs and longer downhills.

Some nice singletrack riding, not the longest as trail centres go, but enough to make it worth while. Some nice descents that you can section and you always have the option of Stile cop.

Blithfield Reservoir Construction River Blithe scheme The River Blithe Scheme was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1939, giving the company permission to carry out a significant amount of work including: • Impounding the water in the River Blithe • Constructing Blithfield Reservoir • Creating a number of road diversions, including Admaston Road and Watery Lane • Constructing the Seedy Mill Purification Works • Extending the existing service reservoirs at Barr Beacon and Gentleshaw • Laying a trunk main between Blithfield Reservoir and the Seedy Mill works Replacement for Scout House Reservoir. In 1928, the Company had to consider an alternative scheme for providing a new reservoir in a favourable site to replace Scout House Reservoir, Hednesford. Several schemes for the reparation of the doomed reservoir had been prepared, but owing to the excessive cost, ranging from £35,000 to £75,000, the Engineer considered the advisability of choosing an entirely new site. A careful survey of the district near Chestall was made and a probable site selected at a favourable altitude. In order to avoid another white elephant, with coal mines affecting the works, a mining consultant was engaged to report on geological conditions. Negotiations were carried out with the Marquis of Anglesey's Agent for purchase of the ground at Gentleshaw near Cannock. An area of land, six acres, three roods, was secured for £2,000 which included the rights to mines and minerals lying under an area of seventy acres. Thomas Lowe and Sons of Burton on Trent submitted the winning tender £37,191, to construct the five million gallon, reinforced concrete, covered reservoir on similar principles to Shavers End Reservoir. The site was situated 746 feet above sea level and acted as a balancing reservoir for the Cannock area pumping stations. Its dimensions were length 252 feet, breadth 216 feet, depth 15 feet and it was brought into commission in 1930.

Great location with a mix of purpose built Trails & wise open large tracks as well. Bike Centre closed on Wednesday’s

The RAF station of Hednesford was built just south of Cannock Chase, above the village of Hednesford in 1938/39, on land purchased from the Marquess of Anglesey. Ten officers and fifty other ranks arrived in mid-March 1939. It operated as No 6 School of Technical Training. Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm mechanics received technical training on a variety of airframes and engines. The first intake of trainees arrived in April 1939, transferred from RAF Halton. In June 1939 Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, visited the camp, by which time it already had 1,700 trainees. Accommodation consisted of wooden barrack huts (over 200 of them at their peak). Three large "Hinaidi" hangars housed the instructional aircraft and there was a large steel-framed workshop building of 70,000 square feet (6,500 square metres). During the War it grew to accommodate 4,000 trainees and 800 staff. Although it had no proper airfield at least three instructional aircraft were flown in and landed on the camp sports field. A platform was built on the local railway line at Moor's Gorse (Brindley Halt) to serve the camp. The road from the railway halt to the camp was steep and acquired the name "Kitbag Hill". The last intake for No 6 School of Technical Training was in 1947. After that RAF Hednesford became a demobilization centre and transit camp, and then a despatch centre, preparing personnel for overseas postings. In 1950 it reopened as No 11 School of Recruit Training where many National Servicemen received their basic training. It was very first base of most personnel there during the 1940s and 1950s. most of whom were newly called up in the rank of AC2 (the very lowest rank in the RAF) for their 2 years National Service in the British armed forces known as a "square bashing camp" in the vernacular. New recruits into the RAF were given their initial training, which included first learning of RAF parade ground drill with rifles, intensive physical fitness training, training in ground combat and defence under Non Commissioned Officers of the RAF Regiment and some education about the RAF and its history. Men while undergoing their basic training at Hednesford were accommodated in wooden barrack huts, each one housing about twenty men. As usual with any military basic training camp discipline was very much stricter than it would be at any normal operational or trade training camp. Recruits normally spent a period of 8 weeks (later on 6 weeks) on their training at Hednesford before being posted on to their "trade training" camp elsewhere in the United Kingdom. Thousands of conscripts went through its gates up until 1956. Ten days after the last passing out parade at RAF Hednesford, 800 refugees from Hungarian Uprising of 1956 moved in, the first batch of a total of some 1,200. The RAF initially helped with feeding arrangements although the camp was run by Staffordshire welfare services. In 1958 the Air Ministry announced it planned to sell the site. In April 1959, a sale of all the moveable buildings and equipment on the site was arranged (except for the officer's mess a small number of huts in the North-East corner). This included the large steel-framed workshop (which was rebuilt in nearby Chasetown) and the Hinaidi Hangers. The site was neglected for many years. Various plans for the sale of the site fell through and it was becoming vandalised and dangerous with the air-raid shelters still remaining and increased subsidence from old mine-workings. In 1962 some of the site was cleared by 213 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (TA) from Cannock and 293 Squadron from Stafford. The remaining buildings in the North-East corner of the site were used by the Army as "No 81 Week End Training Centre" used by Territorial and Cadet units ( a caretaker's bungalow, firing range and some other buildings were added). In 1963 the camp was acquired by Staffordshire council who had the remaining air-raid shelters demolished and the mining subsidence filled in. Access to the site was restricted for some time to allow vegetation and wildlife to regenerate, although it was sometimes used for military training exercises and the training of police dogs. The week-end Training centre was closed. The whole old camp area is now part of Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with a visitor centre on the site (first opened in 1983).

In the autumn of 1914, only months after the start of the First World War, construction of two large camps began on Cannock Chase. The camps (known as Brocton Camp and Rugeley Camp) were constructed with the permission of Lord Lichfield, on whose estate they were being built. The infrastructure for the camps, including the water supply, sewage systems and the roads all had to be created from scratch before work could begin on the huts and other structures. A large workforce was assembled to build the camps and the associated railway,later nicknamed the 'Tackeroo Express' with more than one hundred men working on the construction of the camps at any one time. Water was supplied by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company, and electricity by the Cannock and Rugeley Colliery Company. The camps were based upon a complex of timber huts adapted for specific purposes such as barracks, mess rooms and workshops. Following the implementation of the camps' infrastructure, the first huts were under construction in March 1915 and the first battalions arrived soon after. Use of the camps During the early part of the war the camps were primarily used as transit camps to accommodate Service Battalions travelling towards the western front; following their completion, the camps settled into the mould of a training facility and there was a steady influx of battalions, including men of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, who later made Cannock Chase their UK headquarters. Various schools of war were established, offering instruction in musketry, scouting, signalling,physical training, gas warfare and many other related subjects. The camps, when completed, could hold up to 40,000 men at one time and probably trained upwards of 500,000 men. They had all their own amenities including a church, post offices and a bakery as well as amenity huts where the troops could by coffee and cakes, or play billiards. There was even a theatre.

Fantastic spot for a picnic or lunch. Or even to stop and sit down on the various benches around. Be warned, it can get busy as it is a hot spot of cannock chase.