A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WYRLEY (Great), a township in Cannock parish, and a chapelry including also Cheslyn-Hay extra-parochial tract, Stafford. The township lies on the Walsall, Cannock, and Rugeley railway, 6½ miles N by W of Walsall; has a station, of the name of Wyrley, on the railway; and includes Wyrley-Bank, which has a post-office under Walsall. Real property, £8,462; of which £1,348 are in mines, and £700 in iron-works. Pop., 890. Houses, 166. The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Pop., 2,067. Houses, 402. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160.* Patron, the Vicar of Cannock. The church was built in 1845. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Cannock AP/CP Great Wyrley CP/Tn Staffordshire AncC |
| Place names: | GREAT WYRLEY | WYRLEY | WYRLEY GREAT |
| Place: | Great Wyrley |
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