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Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis - 1859

PATTINGHAM (ST. CHAD), a parish, in the union of SEISDON, partly in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, S. division of SALOP, but chiefly in the S. division of the hundred of SEISDON and of the county of STAFFORD, 6 miles (W.) from Wolverhampton; containing, with the township of Rudge, 903 inhabitants, of whom 802 are in Stafford. The parish comprises about 2100 acres; the soil is fertile, producing chiefly barley, with good turnip land, and the surface is hilly.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8; patron and impropriator, Sir George Pigot, Bart.; the vicarial tithes have been commuted for £342. In the cemetery of the church is an old Roman cross. A school, endowed with about £12 per annum, is conducted on the national system. 

RUDGE, a township, in the parish of PATTINGHAM, union of SEISDON, hundred of STOTTESDEN, S. division of SALOP, 7 miles (E.N.E.) from Bridgenorth; containing 101 inhabitants. It comprises 1567 acres, of which 456 are common or waste. The impropriate tithes of a part of the township have been commuted for £104.12.10., and the vicarial for £75. 
 

 

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