You can explore Codsall Wood by walking from Codsall Church by public footpath across the fields; or by walking or cycling from Codsall along Moat Brook Lane, Husphins Lane and County Lane; or
you can park the car at either of the two pubs at Codsall Wood where you can get pub food. Another route uses Whitehouse Lane from Gunstone - you pass the Leper Well and Leper House and also the White House.
Much of the land at Codsall Wood is farmed and the traffic in the lanes is quite light, though the main road from Codsall to Bishopswood is fairly busy. Codsall Wood is over 450 feet above sea level (higher than St Nicholas Church). Looking westward the Titterstone and Brown Clee Hills and the Wrekin are visible and, on a clear day, the Welsh Hills beyond; so too are aircraft at the Cosford RAF Museum and also the tall chimney of the Ironbridge Power Station.
Although Codsall Wood borders on the large Chillington Estate (in the Parish of Brewood), Codsall Wood has never formed part of the estate (apart from one or two houses and parcels of land ac-quired by the estate many years ago). Much of the land was 'common land' or was/is farm land be-longing to Wood Hall or the Stockings - both these estates go back to the Middle Ages. Husphins Farm, Pendrell Hall and Wheatstone Park are significant properties of the 19th century.
On the west of Codsall Wood is County Lane being the ancient boundary between Staffordshire and Shropshire.
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