Acton Trussell in 1872

ACTON-TRUSSELL and BEDNALL, a township-chapelry in Baswick parish, Stafford; on the river Trent and the Stafford canal, near Cannock Chase,
and near the Northwestern railway, 3 miles N of Penkridge. It has a post-office, of the name of Bednall, under Stafford. 

Acres, 2,547. Real property, £4,782. Pop., 617. Houses, 123. The property is divided among four proprietors.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £234. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is in disrepair. 
 

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