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TETTENHALL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The village stands on the Stafford and Birmingham canal, 2 miles WNW of Wolverhampton r. station; contains many good houses; and has a post-office under Wolverhampton. The parish was formerly divided into T.-Regis and T.-Clericorum; includes the chapelry of T.-Wood, constituted in 1866; and contains 7 liberties or hamlets. Acres, 7,600. Real property, £28,717. Pop. in 1851, 3,396; in 1861, 3,716. Houses, 781. Hardware manufacture is carried on. A battle, very disastrous to the Danes, was fought here in 907 or 910. Both the head living and that of T.-Wood are vicarages in the diocese of Lichfield. Value of the former, £216;* of the latter, £300. Patron of both, Lord Wrottesley. The parochial church is early English and was once collegiate. T.-Wood church was built in 1866, and is in the decorated English style. Charities, £84.—The sub-district contains 3 parishes, and comprises 14,222 acres. Pop., 6,046. Houses, 1,292.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Tettenhall CP/AP Tettenhall SubD Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Tettenhall |
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