Stafford St Chad in 1872

STAFFORD, St. Chad's church is small, and was originally Saxon; but has been almost entirely altered by additions and repairs. 

The parish of Stafford is St Mary and St Chad; includes the townships of Whitgreave, Marston, Salt and Enson, and Hopton and Coton, and is ecclesiasticalIy cut into the sections of St Mary, St. Chad, Christchurch, Salt, and Marston-with-Whitgreave. Acres 6,373. Pop in 1851, 12,176; in 1861, 13,206. Houses, 2,223. The living of St. Mary is two-fold, a rectory, and a perpetual curacy, and the other livings are perpetual curacies, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value of St. Mary rectory, £400; of St Mary perpetual curacy, £170; of St. Chad, £85; of Christchurch, £300. Patron of St Mary rectory, the Lord Chancellor; of St Mary perpetual curacy, and of Christchurch, the Rector of St Mary; of St Chad, the Prebendary in Lichfield Cathedral. Salt and Marston are separately noticed. The sub-district contains also 3 other parishes, and 5 extra-parochial tracts. Acres, 17,581. Pop., 14,739. Houses, 2,521.

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following places in Stafford St Chad is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Hopton
• Coton
• Whitgreave

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]