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Willenhall in Stafford County England History and GeographyWILLENHALL, a chapelry in that part of the parish of WOLVERHAMPTON which is in the southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 3¼ miles (E.) from Wolverhampton, containing 3965 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the court of the royal peculiar of Wolverhampton, and in the patronage of the inhabitants who possess lands of inheritance. The chapel, dedicated to St. Giles, was built about 1748. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. The Wyrley and Essington canal passes through the parish, in which are extensive collieries and mines of iron-stone. This place, at the period of the Norman survey, was called Winehala, the Saxon term for victory, probably from the great battle fought near it in 911. The village began to thrive so early as the reign of Elizabeth, when the iron manufacture was first established here: at present it is noted for its flourishing trade in locks, which it possesses to a greater extent than any other place of its size in Europe. As an instance of the great ingenuity of the workmen, it is recorded that, in 1776, one Lees, aged sixty-three, produced a padlock and key, wrought by himself, of less weight than a silver twopenny coin. Many other articles of hardware are made, particularly curry-combs, gridirons, screws, &c. Courts leet and baron are annually held; and there is a court of requests on three Mondays in every alternate month, for the recovery of debts under £5. In the neighbourhood are the remains of an old hall, formerly the seat of the maternal ancestors of the Marquis of Stafford. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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