Burntwood in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"BURNTWOOD, a hamlet in the parish of Lichfield St. Michael, hundred of Offlow, in the county of Stafford, 3 miles to the W. of Lichfield. The South Staffordshire railway passes near it. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £78, in the gift of the Vicar of St. Mary's parish. Races take place here in the month of October."

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]