Loggerheads & Baldwins Gate

Loggerheads and Baldwins Gate lie in the north of the Newcastle-under-Lyme borough in Staffordshire, around the A53 corridor that links Newcastle-under-Lyme with Market Drayton. The area is a patchwork of arable fields, hedgerows and small woodlands, with stone and brick cottages clustered around a village core. Local services include a primary school, a village hall and a handful of shops and pubs that serve surrounding farms and hamlets. A clear ridge of Triassic sandstone runs through the locality and that stone appears in many older buildings and boundary walls.

Community life centres on parish activities, amateur sports and regular events at the village halls. Bus services connect the villages to nearby towns and there are footpaths that cross fields and lanes, bringing walkers to views over the surrounding farmland. Small enterprises work from converted barns and business units, and conservation of hedgerows, ponds and field margins is a recurring theme in local planning and volunteer groups.