Pipehill

Pipehill is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parishs of Hammerwich and Wall, in the Lichfield district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is located between Wall and Hammerwich. In 1891, the parish had a population of 139.^[1]

Pipehill
Pipehill Location within Staffordshire
Civil parish	Hammerwich (part) & Wall (part)
District	Lichfield
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BURNTWOOD
Postcode district	WS7
Dialling code	01543
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Lichfield
List of places UK England Staffordshire 52.670°N 1.864°W / 52.670; -1.864

The village consists of farms, housing, a petrol station, offices, and Pipehills Fisheries.

There is an hourly bus service that runs through Pipehill from Lichfield to Walsall via Walsall Wood and Aldridge. The nearest railway station is Lichfield City. The now disused South Staffordshire Line ran through the hamlet with a station at Hammerwich. This station closed in 1965 and the line in 2002. Although the section to Brownhills and Walsall was closed in 1984.

Pipehill also has a former toll house on Walsall Road which is now in private ownership. The nearest churches are in Wall and Hammerwich.

History

Pipehill was formerly a township in the parish of Lichfield St Michael,^[2] from 1866 Pipehill was a civil parish in its own right,^[3] in 1894 the parish was abolished and merged with Wall and Lichfield St Michael.^[4]