Pattingham in 1817

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

PATTINGHAM.

Pattingham is a pleasant village, situated to the north of Trysull and west of Tettenhall. The Church is a vicarage in the patronage of the present incumbent: it is a neat Gothic fabric, with a stone tower. The interior was repaired and newly-pewed a few years since: near it is an ancient stone cross, and a good parsonage-house. The manor, and great part of the land, belong to the Pigot family.

The village stands on a rocky bottom, and the lands about it are for the most part light and sandy. Pattingham is supposed to be a very ancient place, from the circumstance of several Roman relics having been discovered here at different times, particularly a valuable torques of gold, found in the year 1700, and a small pig of gold in 1780.