In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pelsall like this:
PELSALL, a township-chapelry in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; on the Wyrley canal and the South Stafford railway, 3 miles N N E of Walsall. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Walsall. Acres, 1, 194. Real property, £8, 127; of which £3, 815 are in mines, and £2,000 in iron-works. ...
Pop. in 1851, 1, 132; in 1861, 1,892. Houses, 376. The manor belongs to the Duke of Sutherland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good; and a tower was added to it in 1821. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed national school.
Pelsall through time
Pelsall is now part of Walsall district. Click here for graphs and data of how Walsall has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Pelsall itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Pelsall, in Walsall and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8475
Date accessed: 27th September 2024
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