Madeley in 1868

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

"MADELEY, a parish in the N. division of the hundred of Pirehill, county Stafford, 4 miles S.W. of Newcastle-under-Lyme, its post town, and 17 N.W. of Stafford. It is a station on the London and North-Western line of railway. The parish is situated on the river Lea, a tributary of the Waver, and includes the hamlet of Little Madeley, where brick-making and coal-mining are carried on. Nails are manufactured in the village of Madeley, which stands on the roads from Whitchurch and Nantwich to Newcastle. The surface is hilly and well-wooded, and comprises a small portion of peat-bog. The substratum abounds with coal, of which several mines are in operation. The land is nearly evenly divided between arable, meadow, and pasture. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £333 8s. 5d., and the vicarial for £192.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value £266. The church is an ancient structure dedicated to All Saints. It contains monuments and effigies of the Egerton and other families. The register commences in 1678. Almshouses for ten persons and a free school were founded and endowed by Sir John Offley, the income of which now amounts to £95, besides charities for the poor, the whole producing about £155 per annum. The Wesleyans have a chapel."

"ONNELEY, a township in the parish of Madeley, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill, county Stafford, 6 miles S.W. of Newcastle-under-Lyme."

 

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