Colwich, Staffordshire

It lies principally on the north-east bank of the River Trent, near Wolseley Bridge and just north of The Chase.

The name Colwich comes from the Old English for 'Charcoal specialised-farm', or perhaps 'Cola's specialised farm'[2] Shugborough Hall was the ancestral home of the Ansons, earls of Lichfield, four miles (6 km) NW by W of Rugeley.

The church has a fine set of choir stalls[3] and a reredos of angels by local sculptor Samuel Peploe Wood.

The Anson family vault is located underneath the organ loft, formerly the private gallery of the owners of Shugborough Hall.

[6] The village is noted for Saint Mary's Abbey, a community of Roman Catholic nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation founded in 1623 at Cambrai in the Spanish Netherlands.

In 1836 the community, having been expelled from France during the French Revolution, finally settled at The Mount, Colwich, where they established the present house, raised to the rank of an abbey in 1928.