In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Wyrley like this:
WYRLEY (Great), a township in Cannock parish, and a chapelry including also Cheslyn-Hay extra-parochial tract, Stafford. The township lies on the Walsall, Cannock, and Rugeley railway, 6½ miles N by W of Walsall; has a station, of the name of Wyrley, on the railway; and includes Wyrley-Bank, which has a post-office under Walsall. ...
Real property, £8,462; of which £1,348 are in mines, and £700 in iron-works. Pop., 890. Houses, 166. The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Pop., 2,067. Houses, 402. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160.* Patron, the Vicar of Cannock. The church was built in 1845. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.
Great Wyrley through time
Great Wyrley is now part of South Staffordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Staffordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Great Wyrley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Wyrley in South Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8638
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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