Kelly's Directory 1872
WHITTINGTON is a parish and compact and well built village, pleasantly situated 3 miles east from Lichfield, 4 north-west from Tamworth, 109½ from London, 20 from Stafford, and 33 from Stoke, in the Eastern division of the county, North Offlow hundred, Lichfield union and county court district, rural deanery of Lichfield, archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St Giles is a neat brick building, with square stone tower with lofty spire ; the latter are of more ancient erection: the interior has nave, aisles and chancel. The register dates from the year 1575. The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £251, in the gift of Theophilus John Levett esq., and held by the Rev. Joseph Taylor, M.A. of Trinity College Cambridge.  There is a Free school for boys, with endowments, founded by Mrs Sarah Neal in 1741, and a legacy of £288 15s. 9d., left by the late Rev. Richard Levett in 1800, invested in £3 per Cent. Consols, producing £8 13s 2d.  A handsome building for a girls’ and infants’ school was erected by Lieut.-Col. Dyott in 1864. The Wesleyans have a small chapel here. The general charities amount to £7 yearly.  The heath consisting of 338 acres, on the south-east side of the village, is an open sheep-walk, where the Lichfield races are held.  Whittington Hall, a large ancient mansion, a little east of the church is occupied by John Baggaley, esq.  The Marquess of Anglesey is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are T. J. Levett esq., Sir Robert Peel, bart. M.P., Lieut.-Col. Dyott and Ralph Wood, esq. The soil is various, sand and clay: subsoil, rock and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,921 acres of land; gross estimated rental, £7,372; rateable value £6,541 ; and the population, including Huddlesford, in 1871 was 869.

HUDDLESFORD, a hamlet, 1½ miles north from the village, is in this parish.  Hurst is a hamlet, 1½ miles north-north-east. TAMHORN, 2 miles south-east, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish in the Lichfield union and belongs to Sir R. Peel bart. M.P.  The area is 770 acres.  WILLIFORD is 2 miles north.

Parish Clerk, Joseph Elson

POST OFFICE. - John Elson, postmaster. Letters arrive by foot post from Lichfield at 7.35 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m.  Lichfield is the nearest money order office.
WALL BOX, Huddlesford, cleared at 4.55 p.m.

SCHOOLS:-
Free, William Barker, master
National, Miss Eleanor Wilcox, mistress; Miss Caroline Meacham, infants’ mistress

WHITTINGTON
Baggaley John, Whittington hall
Clarke Thomas
Griffith John Delane
Holmes John, the Hill
Inge Charles, Hurst
Jarvis Mrs
Legge The Hon. & Rev.Geo. Barrington
Lewis Samuel

COMMERCIAL.
Alsopp Thomas, farmer
Bacon Thos. Farmer, Whittington green
Bates Geo. market gardener & shopkpr
Bates Robert, farmer & shopkeeper
Bealing John, beer retailer, Marsh
Bridgen John, Bell & bricklayer
Bridgen Thomas, The Dog & butcher
Brown John, shoe maker
Buckinham William, blacksmith
Elson John, tailor
Elson Joseph, tailor & parish clerk
Green William, farmer, Brook hay
Hall Thomas, market gardener
Hardin James, saddler
Harding Thomas, farmer, Brook hay
Heathcote Joseph Benjamin, farmer
Holmes Edward, nurseryman, seedsman & florist, & agent for Shanks’s patent lawn mowers, Whittington nursery & at
Tamworth street, Lichfield
Inge Charles, farmer, Hurst
Johnson George, shopkeeper
Johnson William, farmer, Brook hay
Langton Thomas, wheelwright
Madeley Joseph, shopkeeper
Moody George, wheelwright
Myatt John, farmer
Nevill Daniel, baker
Nevill Daniel, jun. assistant overseer
Neville Francis, farmer, Huddlesford
Neville Richard, market gardener
Nourse William & Sons, engineers
Nurse Thomas, Peel’s Arms
Pass Edward, shopkeeper
Phillips Joseph, butcher
Pipe James, beer retailer & butcher
Powell James, farmer
Redfern Thomas, farmer
Sanders Thomas, The Plough
Smith James, farmer
Smith Thomas, Swan, & coal dealer, Coal wharf
Sparkes Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Hurst
Startin Anne Maria, farmer, Thatchmoor house
Sturges Eliza (Mrs.), farmer & miller, Bunnins mill
Taylor William, farmer, Street hay
Thomas Wm., brick ma. & frmr, Hudlesfrd
Tomlinson Geo., wheelwright, Brook hay
Toplis John, wheelwright
Wilkes John, farmer, Street hay
Windridge Richard, blacksmith

TAMHORN
Booth Thomas, farmer