Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BISHOPSWOOD

BISHOPSWOOD, a chapelry in Brewood parish, in the vicinity of Brewood, Stafford. It was constituted in 1851; and its Post Town is Brewood, under Stafford. Rated property, £5,054. Pop., 588. Houses, 139. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Brewood. The church is fair.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Brewood AP/CP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Bishops Wood

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