Oaken
village in Staffordshire, England, UK
Oaken is a small village in Staffordshire, England. The first mention of the Oaken place-name was in 1086 when it was listed in the Domesday Book as Ache. Its origin appears to be from the Old English, ācum - (place of) the oaks.
Oaken lies just one mile west of Codsall where the population taken at the 2011 census can be found. It is home to Oaken Terrace Nursing Home, a large nursing home situated just off Oaken Drive. Oaken's only pub is The Oaken Arms, a Vintage Inns pub on Holyhead Road - formerly The Foaming Jug, it re-opened in November 2010.
The public source identifies “Oaken” as village in Staffordshire, England, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oaken, village and Staffordshire.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7073827. Authority coordinates are 52.621, -2.228. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1086, 2011 and 2010.
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This entry incorporates text from “Oaken” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.