Pipe Ridware in 1859

RIDWARE, PIPE (ST. JAMES), a parish, in the union of LICHFIELD, N. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (E.) from Rugeley; containing 100 inhabitants. It comprises about 700 acres, the soil of which is in some parts light, and in others a stiff clay; the river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal pass through.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £46; patron, Chancellor in the Cathedral of Lichfield, whose tithes here have been commuted for £45; the glebe contains nearly 3 acres, and a rent-charge of £90 is paid to the prebendary of Alrewas. 

 

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