Farewell in 1859

FAREWELL (ST. BARTHOLOMEW), a parish, in the union of LICHFIELD, S. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 2 miles (N.W.) from Lichfield; containing, with the hamlet of Chorley, 203 inhabitants. It comprises about 1300 acres, arable and pasture; the surface is hilly and the soil of light quality. The villages of Farewell and Chorley are very picturesque, and are situated within a mile of each other.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income £50; patron and impropriator, the Marquess of Anglesey. The tithes have been commuted for £129, and the glebe contains 20 acres. The church is a neat edifice, mostly built in 1780; the chancel is of earlier date. Roger, Bishop of Chester or Lichfield, founded about 1140 a house for canons regular, who afterwards gave place to Benedictine nuns; it was suppressed by Wolsey.

CHARLEY, a hamlet, in the parish of FAREWELL, union of LICHFIELD, S. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Lichfield; containing 158 inhabitants. 

 

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