Whittington in 1859

WHITTINGTON (ST. GILES), a parish, in the union of LICHFIELD, N. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Lichfield; containing 799 inhabitants. It comprises 2921 acres, of which 463 are common or waste; the cultivated land is mostly arable, and of level surface. The manufacture of paper is carried on, on a small scale. The Coventry canal passes through the village. 

The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the impropriator, John Levett, Esq., of Wichnor Park, chief owner of the parish: the great tithes have been commuted for £382.10., and the small tithes for £159; the glebe comprises 46 acres. The church has a square tower, surmounted by a lofty spire; the body was rebuilt in 1762. About £8 per annum were left for education by an ancestor of Mr. Levett's. 

TAMHORN, an extra-parochial place adjacent to the parish of WHITTINGTON, union of LICHFIELD, N. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (N.W. by N.) from Tarnworth; containing 5 inhabitants. The Birmingham and Fazeley canal passes in the vicinity, and on the east flows the river Tame. The estate comprises a wood of 108 acres, and a farm of 505 acres, and is the property of Sir Robert Peel, who, in the year 1827, purchased it from Lord George Cavendish.  
 

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]