Adbaston in 1817

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

ADBASTON.

Adbaston, is a parish in Pirehill North, situate about a mile and a half north-west of the village of High Offley. It contains four townships, and a population of 532 persons. The Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient Gothic structure of stone, with a tower, and is a curacy in the patronage of the Dean of Lichfield, the impropriation being a part of the endowment of the Deanery of Lichfield and Coventry. The Rev. Thomas Harding is curate. 
The soil of the village of Adbaston is a mixed gravelly loam, producing turnips, wheat, and other grain : the low land makes good meadows, if well-drained.

In this parish died, November, 28, 1714, William Wakeley, of Outlands, aged 125 years. 

Adbaston parish contains 92 houses, 101 families; males 272, females 260 : total, 532 persons. 

Outlands is a small hamlet north of Adbaston, and contains a few farm-houses arid cottages. It is generally a light rocky soil, with some good meadow-land.