A Little About Yoxall.

   For my major project I'm focusing on the village I live in Yoxall in Staffordshire so I thought it'd be a good idea just to give you a little over view of the place to give you the reader a better feel for it. Located near the River Trent it's what you might call a typical British farming community built up around the church and pubs that once made up the beating heart of the village while the farms once made up the majority of employment.
 Of course this isn't what you find today as like most other small communities its now made up of an ageing population that see's the local village school with smaller and smaller classes and many of the farms either going out of business or looking to diversify in order to survive in these testing economic times. It isn't all bad though we are now at the heart of the National Forest Scheme seeing much of the farmland that has been left unused being rented and plant to form a new forest in the centre of the country, for any love of the outdoor's and wildlife (as I am) can now find all kinds of interesting scenes right on my door step.

Architecturally the village is made up of a good combination of the old and the new, from the Tudor style beamed houses to the 1950's estate up to the large more modern house found on the out skirts. The layout is as you'd expect, around and along the main road (the a515 which runs up towards Ashbourne and into the Peak District) you find many of the oldest house, the school and the 18th century church.

Like anywhere it has it's issues and it's the perfect place to live by far but for me it's where I've always live and called home so I maybe have a unique view of how it's changing in this modern world, if I ask my parents there very quick to say that it isn't the place they grew up in any more but this just I think reflects the world as a whole just on a much smaller scale.


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