Rugeley in 1868

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

"RUGELEY, a parish, post and market town in the E. division of Cuttlestone hundred, county Stafford, 7 miles N.W. of Lichfield, and 9 S.E. of Stafford. It is a station on the Trent Valley branch of the London and North-Western railway, and a new branch has been added, called the Cannock Mineral line, which runs from Cannock to Walsall, thus affording a communication to all parts of the W. of England. It is situated on the Grand Trunk canal and the river Trent, and contains the chapelry of Brereton, and a portion of Cannock chase."  (There is more of this description).

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