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CODSALL, a village and a parish in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The village stands near the boundary with Salop, the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, and the Birmingham and Shrewsbury railway, 5 miles NW of Wolverhampton; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Wolverhampton. The parish includes also the township of Oaken; and has two other post offices, Codsall-Wood and Oaken, under Wolverhampton. Acres, 2, 580. Real property, £8, 678. Pop., 1, 204. Houses, 274. Wrottesley Hall here is the seat of Lord Wrottesley. There is a strong sulphurous spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £146. Patron, Lord Wrottesley. The church was early English, with Norman traces; was recently rebuilt, excepting the tower; is now a very beautiful structure; and contains tombs of the Wrottesleys. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £58.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Codsall CP/Ch Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Codsall |
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