Tettenhall in 1872

TETTENHALL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The village stands on the Stafford and Birmingham canal, 2 miles WNW of Wolverhampton railway station; contains many good houses; and has a post-office under Wolverhampton. The parish was formerly divided into Tettenhall-Regis and Tettenhall-Clericorum; includes the chapelry of Tettenhall-Wood, constituted in 1866; and contains 7 liberties or hamlets, Acres, 7,600. Real property, £28,717. Pop. in 1851, 3,396; in 1861, 3,716. Houses, 781. Hardware manufacture is carried on. A battle, very disastrous to the Danes, was fought here in 907 or 910.

Both the head living and that of Tettenhall-Wood are vicarages in the diocese of Lichfield. Value of the former, £216; of the latter, £300. Patron of both, Lord Wrottesley. The parochial church is early English and was once collegiate. Tettenhall-Wood church was built in 1866, and is in the decorated English style. Charities, £84. The sub-district contains 3 parishes, and comprises 14,222 acres. Pop., 6,046. Houses, 1,292. 

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following places in Tettenhall is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Bovenhill
• Compton
• Pendeford
• Wightwick
• Wrottesley

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