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Mayfield, Staffordshire

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The preparation of the boards takes several days. Clay is spread over the wet boards then the outline of the design pricked out with coffee beans. "Petalling" follows and finally the boards are erected by the wells. The wells are blessed by local clergy (Church of England, Catholic and Methodist) and
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There has been a church in Mayfield for over a thousand years. The Domesday Survey of 1086 recorded a priest in Mayfield, one of only twenty-five priests recorded for the county of Staffordshire. There is now no trace of the original Church, which would have been a Saxon wooden building standing on
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or near to the site of the present church. The Saxon church was replaced during the reign of Henry I by a Norman stone building in about 1125. The church was extended in the 15 and 16th Centuries, with the tower being built in 1515. The final extension was in 1854.
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Mayfield Recreational Association (the MRA) provide outdoor and sporting facilities for children, young people and adults in and around Mayfield. They offer a football field, multi-use games area, bowling green, playground and pavilion.
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Every summer Mayfield continues the well dressing tradition where wells and springs are decorated with tableaux created by pressing flower petals into clay. The first Well Dressing festival in Mayfield was held in 1896.
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was on a cross country exercise. 25 minutes later the aircraft entered a thuderstorm shortly after the aircraft went into a nose dive & crashed near the village. All Six of the bomber crew died in the crash.
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Mayfield's mill, in one form or another, has been standing on the banks of the Dove since the 12th Century. Today Mayfield Yarns produces warped and twisted yarns. The parish is also home to several farms.
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There is a thriving scout group that opened in 2015. The group takes children from the Village and surrounding areas and is run by volunteers. The group scout leader is Katy Lewis.
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The village is divided into Mayfield, Church Mayfield, Lower Mayfield, Upper Mayfield and Middle Mayfield. It has a population of approximately 2000. It lies on the banks of the
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FRS, FSA, (1858 in Mayfield Vicarage – 1929) a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist, writer and
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Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Irish writer, poet and lyricist. His daughter, Olivia Byron Moore, is buried in the Mayfield churchyard
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The Mayfield Memorial Hall is a charity providing a venue and fundraising events for Mayfield, Ashbourne and surrounding area.
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MARNA is a community group formed in 2019 to improve facilities in Mayfield and put on events for children and older people.
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Mayfield Panthers is the football club and caters for all ages through both Summer and Winter Leagues.
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Mayfield Heritage Group aims to promote and protect heritage and history in and around Mayfield.
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The Henry Prince C.E. (C) First School & Nursery. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
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for 'open land growing with madder' or perhaps, 'assembly open land'.
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Henry Prince First School in Mayfield shut down in summer 2019.
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Senior Social is a club for the over-sixties in the village.
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Mayfield is located in Staffordshire
Staffordshire
OS grid reference
SK154448
District
East Staffordshire
Shire county
Staffordshire
Region
West Midlands
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
DE6 3
Police
Staffordshire
Fire
Staffordshire
Ambulance
West Midlands
UK Parliament
Burton
UK
England
Staffordshire
53°00′23″N 1°46′07″W / 53.0065°N 1.7685°W / 53.0065; -1.7685
Ashbourne

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