Endon & Brown Edge

Endon and Brown Edge sit within the Staffordshire Moorlands as a pair of neighbouring settlements linked by lanes, farms and small patches of woodland. The built area is a mix of cottages, terraces and more recent housing clustered around village services and a community hall, with local shops and a couple of pubs serving residents. Roads and public footpaths knit the two places together, and daily life often revolves around village organisations, the primary school and seasonal events that use the green and hall.

The surrounding countryside is farmland and pasture divided by hedgerows, with a distinct band of red sandstone rising around Brown Edge. Old quarry faces and stone walls show the local bedrock, and many field gateways and lanes reveal pieces of the landscape’s industrial past. Rights of way run across the ridge, giving walkers a sequence of open stretches and enclosed lanes rather than large woodland blocks, and the pattern of fields, hedges and stonework shapes how the villages sit in their moorland fringe setting.