In the 7th century St Chad, the patron Saint of Lichfield Cathedral, visited a Fosse or a deep broad ditch located near the Telecom tower (track from Pottal Pool to Pye Green) and stopped at a gate 400 m from the Pye Green junction.

By 1860 a large canal basin had been built on the Cannock Extension Line and this served as a base to move the produced coal direct to its sale areas such as Birmingham & London.

In the First World War the miners of Chadsmoor made a substantial sacrifice for the country when more than 160 men lost their lives, many of them at the Somme, building tunnels under the German Lines, coincidentally doing the same work which they had left only weeks before.

[2] The Chadsmoor History Society has in recent years built a Portland Stone memorial to commemorate all the names of the men who lost their lives.

The stone was dedicated by the “Bishop of Wolverhampton” and the plaque by Major General John Henderson CB and this was funded by public subscription and small grants.