Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOPWAS-HAYS

HOPWAS-HAYS, an extra-parochial tract in Tamworth district, Stafford; near the river Tame and the Coventry canal, 2 miles W of Tamworth. Acres, 500. Real property, £220. Pop., 2. House, 1. The land was given, at an early period, to the Bishop of Lichfield, to supply stone for repairing his cathedral.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "an extra-parochial tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Tamworth RegD/PLU       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Hopwas Hays

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