CANNOCK  , a

market town in the western parliamentary division of Staffordshire, England, in the district known as Cannock Chase, 130 M . N.W. from London by the London and North Western railway . Pop. of urban district (1891) 20,613; (1901) 23,974 . The church of St Luke is Perpendicular, enlarged in modern times . The famous political preacher, Henry Sacheverell, held the living early in the 18th century . Cannock has tool, boiler, brick and tile works . Cannock Chase, a tract generally exceeding 500 ft. in elevation, extends on an axis from north-west to south-east over some 36,000 acres . It was a royal preserve, and remains for the most part an uncultivated waste, but it is also a rich coalfield, and there are mines in every-direction . Brownhills, Burntwood and Chase Town, Great Wyrley, Hednesford, Hammerwich, and Pelsall are townships or villages of the mining population .