PATTINGHAM: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"PATTINGHAM, a parish partly in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, but chiefly in the southern division of the hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, 6 miles (W.) from Wolverhampton, containing, with the township of Rudge, 935 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of Sir George Pigot, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Chad: in the cemetery is an old Roman cross. A school is endowed with about £12 per annum."

" RUDGE, a township in that part of the parish of PATTINGHAM, which is in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 7 miles (E. N. E.) from Bridgenorth, containing 69 inhabitants."

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831](unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]