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Locals pronounce
Brewood as ‘Brude’. The old Roman road of
Watling Street is a mile away. Go a little
further and you will find Boscobel House where
Charles II famously hid in a great oak tree
(the ‘Royal Oak’) following his defeat at the
Battle of Worcester. The house is a one-time
hunting lodge and was built in the 1630s by
John Gifford on the site of an earlier
timber-framed farmhouse. As well as the king,
it sheltered many fleeing Catholic priests.
Brewood’s Anglican church dates to the 12th
century and has a peel of eight bells. Its
Victorian Roman Catholic Church was built
under the direction of Pugin.
