Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MOSELEY

MOSELEY, a hamlet in Bushbury parish, Stafford; on the Northwestern railway and the Grand Junction canal. 4 miles N by E of Wolverhampton. Pop., 53. Moseley Court and Moseley Hall are chief residences; and the former gave concealment to Charles II., and retains his hiding-place and his bed in their original condition.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bushbury Tn/CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Moseley

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