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Funky Facts about Loggerheads

The village used to house a tuberculosis sanitorium hospital because the village is based on a hill, and thus was above the damp air of the lowlands and the soot and smoke that used to blow over from the Potteries.
It was believed at the time that the fresh air was an effective treatment for the disease, and patients were sometimes put outdoors - in their beds! - to enable them to breathe in the air better.
Even today the the weather in Loggerheads is often quite different from that on the plains around the village.

The 'Cheshire Joint Sanatorium' stood in 250 acres of woodlands, and opened in 1923. It closed in 1969.

The Burntwood in which the sanitorium stood was once a large oak wood, part of the Blore Forest.

Loggerheads, on the Staffordshire/Shropshire border, has the honour of having Telford postcodes, a Shropshire address and, as its council, Newcastle under Lyme, in Staffordshire!

The old name of the pub - The Three Loggerheads - means the three fools.

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