In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bushbury like this:
BUSHBURY, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands adjacent to the Birmingham and Stafford railway, near the Stafford and Worcester canal, 2¾ miles N by E of Wolverhampton; and has a station on the railway. The parish includes also the hamlet of Moseley and the township of Essington; and its Post Town is Wolverhampton. ...
Acres, 6,377. Real property, £13,101. Pop., 2,051. Houses, 393. The property is subdivided. Bushbury Hall is a chief residence. Coal is worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £159.* Patrons, Mr. Horden and others. The church was built in 1460; and is good. Charities, £35.
Bushbury through time
Bushbury is now part of Wolverhampton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wolverhampton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bushbury itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bushbury, in Wolverhampton and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7967
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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