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Cannock in Stafford County England History and GeographyCANNOCK, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD, comprising the townships of Cannock, Cannock-Wood, Cheslyn - Hay, Hednesford with Leacroft, Huntington, and Great Wyrley, and containing 2780 inhabitants, of which number, 766 are in the township of Cannock, 4½ miles (S.E. by E.) from Penkridge. The living, which is remarkable for having been the first preferment of the famous Dr. Sacheverell, is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, endowed with £15 per annum and £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1300 parliamentary grant. The church is dedicated to St. Luke. The Independents and Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of worship. The village is supplied with water by means of a conduit and leaden pipes from Leacroft, about a mile distant, constructed by Bishop Hough. There are manufactories for edged tools at Church-bridge and Wedges Mill, which afford employment to about two hundred persons; the coal used is supplied from the immediate neighbourhood, as well as the iron-ore, called Cannock-stone, or Cark. A court leet and a court baron are held annually, at which the constable and headborough, and the respective constables of the several townships are chosen by juries; and special courts are called when required for the transfer of copyholds. The fairs are, May 8th, August 24th, October 6th, principally for cattle and sheep. A school, founded by John Wood for the free education of children, was, in 1727, enfeoffed with land by Thomas Wood, the income of which is £8 per annum; and John Biddulph, Esq. gave a meadow and garden for the use of the schoolmaster; there are thirty scholars, but none are taught free at present. In 1725, Mrs. M. Chapman bequeathed a small sum for the education of three or four children. A National school has also been recently erected at the expense of Mrs. Walhouse. This place in ancient times was a forest or chase belonging to the Mercian kings. Castle Ring, situated on the summit of Castle Hill, and supposed to have been a British encampment, is nearly a circular area of eight or ten acres, surrounded by a double trench occupying three or four acres more, exhibiting traces at its northern and southern entrances of various advanced works. Near it are the remains of a moat, enclosing an oblong square of about three acres, named the Old Nunnery, where a Cistercian abbey was founded in the reign of Stephen, which was shortly after removed to Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire: a similar enclosure at a small distance is called the Moat Bank. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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