In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tettenhall like this:
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.
Tettenhall through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Tettenhall, in Wolverhampton and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/771
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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