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Bromley (abbot's) in Stafford County England History and GeographyBROMLEY (ABBOT'S), a parish (formerly a market town,) in the southern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 12½ miles (E.) from Stafford, and 130 (N.W. by N.) from London, comprising the liberty of Bagot's Bromley, and the township of Bromley-Hurst, and containing 1533 inhabitants. This place is situated near the river Blythe, by which it is bounded on the south-west. The trade is principally in malt, which is carried on to some extent: the making of shoes, for the manufacturers at Stafford, formerly furnished a livelihood to many of the inhabitants, but it has of late declined. The market has been discontinued for many years: the market-house is an ancient building covered with shingles. The fairs are, March 11th, May 22nd, and September 4th. Courts leet and baron for the manor are held once a year. The living is a discharged vicarage in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 1. 8., and in the patronage of the Marquis of Anglesea. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient structure, partly in the decorated, and partly in the later style of English architecture, with a Norman entrance: it has recently undergone considerable repairs, and has been much modernized. There is a place of worship for Independents. The free school was founded in 1606, by Mr. Richard Clarke, who bequeathed £300 to purchase land for its endowment: the annual income of the school estate is £137. 11. 9., of which the master receives a salary of £20, together with a rent-free residence, containing the school-room, and about three quarters of an acre of garden-ground, for which eleven boys are taught gratuitously. An hospital was founded in 1702, by Lambard Bagot, Esq., who bequeathed £800 for its erection and endowment for six aged men, three of this parish, and one from each of the parishes of Yoxall, Hanbury, and Tatenhill: the endowment was augmented by Charles Bagot, Esq., and a matron has been added to the establishment, who, with each of the inmates, receives a stipend of £10 per annum. At Blythebury, in this parish, was a Benédictine monastery, founded in the latter part of the reign of Henry I., or in the beginning of that of Stephen, by Hugh Malveysin, which was suppressed by Wolsey. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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