Yoxall in 1859

YOXHALL (ST. PETER), a parish, in the union of LICHFIELD, N. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 7 miles (N.N.E.) from 
Lichfield; containing, with part of the hamlet of Hoar-cross, 1535 inhabitants, and comprising by measurement 4795 acres. The parish includes within its limits the hamlets of Hadley-End, one mile south-west; Longcroft, three-quarters of a mile east; Morry, one mile west; Olive-Green, one mile and a half west; and Woodhouses, about half a mile east, from the village of Yoxhall.

The village is pleasantly situated on the road from Buxton to Bath, about a mile from the river Trent: the weaving of tape affords employment to 150 persons, of whom many are children. Fairs are held for cattle on the 12th of February and the 19th of October.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £17.6.8., and in the gift of Lord Leigh: the tithes have been commuted for £290, and the glebe 
comprises 193 acres. The church exhibits various styles, from the Norman to the later English. There are a place of worship for Primitive Methodists, and a Roman Catholic chapel; also a school, founded in 1695, by Thomas Taylor, and endowed with various bequests producing about £20 per annum.

The parish possesses town-lands consisting of about twenty-four acres, let for upwards of £50 a year, and which have been applied by the parochial authorities, for the benefit of Yoxhall, for more than two centuries: there are likewise church lands comprising 10a.3r.2p. In levelling a piece of ground, about forty vessels containing ashes and human bones, were taken up some years since. 

 

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