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Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis - 1859

MADELEY (ALL SAINTS), a parish, in the union of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, N. division of the hundred of PIREHILL and of the county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Newcastle; containing, with the township of Onneley, 1492 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the roads from Whitchurch and Nantwich to Newcastle, and comprises by estimation 5734a. 24p., of which 2070 acres are arable, 2850 meadow and pasture, 630 woodland, and the remainder waste.

Its surface is hilly, and the prevailing timber, oak and ash; the soil is very various, in some parts loam, clay, and sand, and in others, gravel and peat bog; the substratum abounds with coal, of which several mines are in operation. The Grand Junction railway passes for more than four miles through the parish, and has a second-class station here. 

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £4.16.; patron, and impropriator, Hon. C. Offley. The great tithes have been commuted for £333.8.5., and the vicarial for £192, and the glebe comprises 12 acres. The church is an ancient stone structure. Free schools for boys and girls were endowed in 1645, with a rent-charge of £60, by Sir John Offley, who in the same year founded almshouses for ten persons. 

OUNELEY, or ONNELEY, a township, in the parish of MADELEY, union of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, N. division of the hundred of PIREHILL and of the county of STAFFORD, 7 miles (W.S.W.) from Newcastle; containing 192 inhabitants.

 

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