St Giles church stands in a wooded glade, about a half mile north of the National Trust manor of Packwood House. The woodland should not be a surprise, for Packwood is part of that vast ancient woodland known as the Forest of Arden. We do not know when the first church was built here, but it may have been the late Saxon period.
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"Thence to Rotherham, its most in a deep clay ground, and now all the wayes are more difficult and narrow. Rotherham is a good market town well built all of stone, the Church stands high in the middle of the town and looks finely, its all stone and carv'd very well all the outside."
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