Brereton is a former village in the
Cannock Chase District of
Staffordshire, England. It once had a separate identity but is now effectively subsumed into the town of
Rugeley, although it is in the
civil parish of
Brereton and Ravenhill. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 6,524, increasing to 6,538 at the 2011 Census.