Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PLECK and BESCOT

PLECK and BESCOT, a chapelry in Walsall parish, Stafford; around Bescot r. station, 1½ mile S of Walsall. It was constituted in 1860; and its post town is Walsall. Pop., 3, 220. Houses, 650. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £112.* Patron, the Vicar of Walsall. The church is recent. See Bescot.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place: Pleck

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