Shenstone in 1868

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

"SHENSTONE, a parish in the hundred of South Offlow, county Stafford, 31 miles S.W. of Lichfield, and 12 from Birmingham. It is situated on the borders of Stafford and Warwick shires, adjoining Cannock Chase on the W. The parish, which is large, is divided into two districts, the eastern, or Shenstone, and the western, or Stonnall, divisions; the former containing the hamlets of Chesterfield, Footherley, Shenstone Little Hay, Shenstone Woodend, and part of Wall Hilton; and the latter those of Little Aston, Catshill, Lynn, Sandhills, Shire Oak, and Upper and Lower Stonnall.    (There is more of this description).

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Shenstone is to be found on a supplementary page.

Chesterfield Fotherley Little Aston Little Hay Lower Stonnal Over Stonnal Lynn

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