High Offley in 1872

HIGH OFFLEY, a village and a parish in the district of Newport and county of Stafford. The village stands near the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, 3 miles E of the boundary with Salop, 4 S W of Eccleshall, and 5 N W by N of Gnosall railway station.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Shebdon and Woodseaves; and its post town is Newport, Salop. Acres, 2,727. Real property, £5,259. Pop. in 1851, 786; in 1861, 883. Houses, 183. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Miss T. Hinckes.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £313. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient, but good; and contains monuments of the Skrymshers, and a monument of 1851 to Bishop Ryder. Charities, £16. 

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