Salt, Staffordshire

The village is named because of the historical mining for salt and alabaster in the area.

The village church is dedicated to St James the Great and was built on land donated by the Earl of Shrewsbury and largely paid for by him.

[3] It has a large circular stained glass east window, an unusually tall south porch and an open stone bell turret mounted at the east end of the church hung with two bells.

The village lies less than a mile to the north of Hopton Heath, which was a significant battlefield (Battle of Hopton Heath) in the English Civil War where in 1643 Parliamentarian forces were defeated by Royalists under Spencer Compton, who died there.

There is a parish council, the lowest tier of local government in England.