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Bradley in 1872

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John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales - 1870-2

 


BRADLEY, a parish in the district and county of Stafford; 2 miles SSE of Haughton railway station, and 5 SW of Stafford. It includes the liberties of Billington and Woollaston; and its post-town is Church-Eaton under Stafford. Acres. 3,376. Real property, £8,752. Pop., 597. Houses, 125. The property is much sub-divided.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £75. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church is very good. A free school has £132; and other charities £10.

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

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