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Brereton is a former village in the Cannock Chase District of Staffordshire, England. It once had a separate identity but is now effectively subsumed into the town of Rugeley, although it is in the current civil parish of Brereton and Ravenhill. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 6,524. In 1934 the civil parish was abolished and the area was divided between the parishes of Cannock, Rugeley, Brindley Heath and Armitage with Brindley Heath receiving the largest area. Once mining was a big part of this area. The Leahall Mine was the largest, but there were also several smaller mines in the area. The gazetteer quotation below states that the mining was for coal. [edit] A 19th century descriptionA Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Brereton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
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