Fradswell in 1817

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

FRADSWELL

Fradswell is a village to the north-east of Gayton, and in the parish of Colwich. It is a scattered village on a gravelly soil. 
The whole liberty contains 38 houses, 38 families; 120 males, 126 females : total of inhabitants, 246. 

The Church is a chapel of ease to Colwich. It was re-built in 1764, the lower part of the nave and tower of stone, and the upper part of brick : the ancient stone chancel remains. It is a curacy, the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield being patrons, and the Rev Benjamin Johnson, who resides at Weston-on-Trent, is the present minister.