A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PELSALL, a township-chapelry in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; on the Wyrley canal and the South Stafford railway, 3 miles N N E of Walsall. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Walsall. Acres, 1, 194. Real property, £8, 127; of which £3, 815 are in mines, and £2,000 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 1, 132; in 1861, 1,892. Houses, 376. The manor belongs to the Duke of Sutherland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good; and a tower was added to it in 1821. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Pelsall CP/Ch Wolverhampton Tn/AP/CP/Ch Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Pelsall |
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