Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRADLEY

BRADLEY, a parish in the district and county of Stafford; 2 miles SSE of Haughton r. station, and 5 SW of Stafford. It includes the liberties of Billington and Woollaston; and its Post Town is Church-Eaton, under Stafford. Acres, 3,376. Real property, £8,752. Pop., 597. Houses, 125. The property is much subdivided. The living. is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £75. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church is very good. A free school h as £132; and other charities £10.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bradley AP/CP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Bradley

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