Codsall in 1817

Description from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)

CODSALL.

Codsall is a small village and parish, picturesquely situated on an eminence, to the south of Tettenhall: the manor forms part of Tettenhall Clericorum, and belongs to the Wrottesleys.

The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a curacy in the patronage of that family, several of whom are buried here. In the church-yard is a handsome monument to the memory of Nathaniel Barrett, Esq.

On the road leading to Tettenhall, is the Birches, belonging to J. T. Stubbs, Esq.; about half a mile to the west of the village, the Stockings, a good house and estate, the property of Mr. Bedford and near it, Wood-hall, an ancient family-seat of the Deanes, but now tenanted

At Bilbrook, in the parishes of Codsall and Tettenhall, Mr. J. Eginton has lately erected a handsome house, and introduced upon his estate all the improvements of modern agriculture.

Oaken, a hamlet in this parish, contains two elegant mansions, occupied respectively by the Dowager Lady Wrottesley and Christopher Wood, Esq.

Codsall-wood is an extensive waste adjoining Chillington-park- wall and Shropshire. Near Codsall-wood is a remarkable sulphur or brimstone well, which springs up through the hollow stump of a tree, and runs down the road, leaving a yellowness on the moss resembling flour of brimstone: in warm dry weather it emits a sulphureous exhalation. It is reckoned salutary in scorbutic cases.