Fradswell in 1868

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

"FRADSWELL, a chapelry and ecclesiastical district in the parish of Colwich, S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, county Stafford, 6 miles S.E. of Stone, its post town, and 8 N.E. of Stafford. The Sandon station, on the North Staffordshire railway, is nearly 4 miles W. of the village.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £120, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. James, contains an old monument of one of the Cromwell family.

There is a National school for both sexes. Earl Ferrers is lord of the manor. Fradswell Hall is the principal residence."

 

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