Ashley in 1872

ASHLEY, a parish in the district of Market-Drayton, and county of Stafford; 4 miles SW of Whitmore railway station, and 5 ENE of Market-Drayton. It contains the village of Ashley-Heath, and part of the hamlet of Hook-Gate; and has a post-office under Market-Drayton. Acres, 2,860. Real property, £5,308. Pop., 870.

There is a Roman camp on a site 803 feet high. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value. £316. Patron, Mrs. Kinnersley, two turns, and H. C. Meynall Ingram, Esq, one turn. The church is very good, has a font given by a soldier of the Black Prince, and was enlarged by a chapel which contains handsome monuments of the Kinnersleys. There are chapels for Independents and Roman Catholics, and charities £22. 

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]