Places in Tamworth in 1859

TAMWORTH

CANWELL, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of TAMWORTH, S. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (S.W. by W.) from Tamworth; containing 27 inhabitants. In 1142, a priory of Benedictine monks was founded by Geva Riddell; it subsequently went to decay, and became a poor cell for one monk, and was granted to Cardinal Wolsey by Henry VIII., towards the endowment of his two intended colleges. 

SYERSCOTE, a township, in the parish and union of TAMWORTH, N. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (N.N.E.) from Tamworth; containing 46 inhabitants. 

WIGGINTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of TAMWORTH, S. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 1 mile (N.) from Tamworth; containing, with the hamlets of Coton, Camberford, and Hopwas, 849 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £92; patron, the Vicar of Tamworth. The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, a neat structure of brick, was enlarged in 1830, by the addition of a north aisle. Thomas Barnes, in 1717, gave property, of the value of about £5 per annum, in support of a school: Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Beardsley have bequeathed each £200, half the interest to be appropriated to the augmentation of the curate's stipend, and the other half to the poor. 

 

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