Boney Hay

Boney Hay & Central is the name given to the Wards and electoral divisions of [the United Kingdom|ward] and suburb of Burntwood in the Lichfield District in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is one of the six wards on 2023 [Lichfield District Council election|Burntwood Town Council]

Geography

Boney Hay & Central cover the central and northern parts of Burntwood. The ward is mostly urban with residential and commercial developments. It is also close to the Staffordshire Countryside and part of Cannock Chase.

History

Geographically, by common consensus it is agreed Boney Hay falls no further East than Ogley Hay Road, no further west than Rugeley Road, No further South than Rycroft Shopping Precinct/Slade Avenue/ Redwood Park, and no further north than The Chorley Road end of Gentleshaw Common. Boney Hay's name is reputed to date back to Napoleonic times when a couple of returning veterans of The Battle of Waterloo in 1812, likened the crop of wheat growing in the fields there, before current housing, as matching that at Quatre Bras, Belgium, where French Skirmishers hid to snipe at Wellington's troops. Hence the name Boney's Hay, as it was called by locals. It subsequently lost the 's' from Boney's to become Boney over time.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, Boney Hay & Central's ward profile population was 6,344. Of the findings, the ethnicity and religious composition of the ward was:
The religious composition of Boney Hay & Central's ward at the 2021 Census was recorded as: