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Brewood in Stafford County England History and GeographyBREWOOD, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD, comprising the township of Brewood, and the liberty of Coven, and containing 2762 inhabitants, of which number, 2263 are in the township of Brewood, (which includes the return for the liberties of Chillington and Somerford, and the townships of Bishop's Wood, Hide with Wooley, Kiddermore-Green, and Park-Lanes,) 10½ miles (S. by W.) from Stafford. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean of Lichfield, rated in the king's books at £6. 17. 8. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a spacious and handsome edifice, with a fine spire; it has recently been enlarged by the addition of five hundred and sixty sittings, three hundred and seventy-two of which are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches having granted £250 for that purpose. Wesleyan Methodists and Independents have each a place of worship, and the former support a Sunday school. The market, formerly held on Friday, has been discontinued: a fair for live stock is held on the 19th of September. A branch of the Peak Forest canal communicates with this place, and an act has been lately obtained for constructing a new canal. Here is a small manufactory for stock locks. Brewood is within the jurisdiction of the court of requests held at Wolverhampton, for the recovery of debts not exceeding £5. Courts leet and baron are held annually. The free grammar school is supposed to have been founded by Dr. Knightley, whose endowment, increased by subsequent benefactors, now produces about £412 per annum: the system of education is strictly classical, but there is an English free school in connexion with it; and a National school is supported by subscription. Richard Hurd, late Bishop of Worcester, was educated at the grammar school. A bank for savings has been established. A small Benedictine nunnery, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, is first noticed in the time of Richard I.; at the dissolution, its clear revenue was only rated at £11. 1. 6. Chillington Hall, a noble mansion in this parish, is approached by a fine avenue of trees, nearly two miles long, in a direct line: there are two Roman Catholic chapels on the estate. In the neighbourhood are two mineral springs, now disused. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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