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Rocester
The village has developed rapidly over the past 40 years. Within the parish is the international J.C. Bamford industrial complex. JCB Rocester has many species of wildfowl on its 42 acres of beautifully landscaped lakes, which earned a Civic Trust Award for ‘an undoubted attraction’ that adds interest to the surrounding countryside, and is visited by thousands of people from overseas and by the local community.
At the opposite end of the village, on the River Churnet, a cornmill, now used as offices for JCB Credit Ltd., was used for the grinding of potters’ material. Indeed, the history of the village is intimately bound up with the growth of the milling industry and many of the terraced cottages built to house the mill workers in the late 19th century can still be seen today at Churnet Row, Dove Lane and West View. Sandstone from Hollington Quarry came to the local stone works, where it was worked before going out to be used in the construction of many important buildings, including Coventry Cathedral.
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