Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COVEN

COVEN, a chapelry in Brewood parish, Stafford; adjacent to the Liverpool canal and the Northwestern railway, 1½ mile SSW of Four-Ashes r. station, and 4¼ N of Wolverhampton. It was constituted in 1858; and it has a post office under Wolverhampton. Acres, 1, 750. Real property, £3, 346. Pop., 766. Houses, 169. Some of the land is heathy. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, 146.* Patron, the Vicar of Brewood.


(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: Coven

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