Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRADLEY

FRADLEY, a township-chapelry in Alrewas parish, Stafford; on the Grand Trunk canal, near Icknield-street, 1 mile W of Alrewas r. station, and 4½ NE by N of Lichfield. Post town, Alrewas, under Lichfield. Real property, £3, 086; of which £25 are in fisheries. Pop., 333. Houses, 77. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Alrewas, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church was built in 1861; is in the early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with bell turret and vestry.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Alrewas CP/AP       Fradley CP/Tn       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Fradley

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