Bushbury in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"BUSHBURY, a parish partly in the eastern division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, and partly in the northern division of the hundred of Seisdon, in the county of Stafford, 3 miles to the N. of Wolverhampton, its post town. It is a station on the London and North-Western railway. The parish contains the township of Essington and the hamlet of Moseley, and is crossed by the Stafford and Worcester canal. Coal is abundant in Essington, and many of the inhabitants are employed in working the mines.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value £159, in the patronage of Phillips, Esq., and others. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. It is ancient, and formerly belonged to the priory of St. Thomas, near Stafford. It contains a monument to Hugh Bushbury, who erected the chancel. The charitable endowments of the parish amount to £35 per annum.

At Moseley Hall Charles II. took shelter for several days, after his defeat at the battle of Worcester. It was at that time the seat of Thomas Whitgreave, whose tomb is in Bushbury church."

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Bushbury is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Essington
• Moseley

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]