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Stonnall in 1817

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

STONNALL.

Upper Stonall is a hamlet, between three and four miles west of Shenstone Church. Near the hamlet, on a small hill, are vestiges of an ancient fortification, called the Castles, or Old-Fort.

There were formerly two large inns in this hamlet, called the Swan and the Welch Harp, the great road from London to Chester and Holyhead then passing through it. But the road being now through Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the inns and the population of the place have declined.

Lynne is an estate extending nearly two miles from Upper Stonall to Shenstone. It contains about twelve houses, of which the most ancient is Lynne-Hall, now a farm-house. The estate is now occupied by the Owens, a branch of the Owens of Albrighton.

Chesterfield, on the Watling-street-way near Wall, consists of farms and tenements, and was formerly part of the Roman station.

Little Aston, situated about a mile south of Footherley, and two miles from Shenstone Church, is so called to distinguish it from Aston, near Birmingham.

The mansion, which was built by William Tenant, Esq. lord of the manor of Shenstone, is very elegant, and the domain much improved. An extensive lawn surrounds the house, shaded with trees, and adorned with a noble lake, over which a handsome bridge has been built, opposite to which a conservatory of hewn stone adds to the general beauty of the scene.