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WHITTINGTON is a parish and compact and well built village, pleasantly seated 3 miles east from Lichfield, 4 north-west from Tamworth, 109½ from London, in the Eastern division of the county, North Offlow hundred, Elford petty sessional division, Lichfield union and county court district, rural deanery of Lichfield, archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St Matthew is a brick building, consisting of nave, small apse, and square stone tower with lofty spire ; the latter are of more ancient erection. The register dates from the year 1575. The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £251, in the gift of Theophilus John Levett esq. M.P. and held by the Rev. the Hon. George Barrington Legge. There is a school for boys, partially endowed, founded by Mrs Sarah Neal in 1741, and a legacy of £200, left by the late Rev. Richard Levett in 1800, invested in £3 per Cent. Consols, producing £6. There is a small Congregational chapel. 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. The barracks now being erected on the Heath will hold 1,200 men, exclusive of officers. The site occupies 40 acres. Whittington Hall, the residence of Lord Berkeley Paget, is a large and ancient brick mansion, and is said to be about 900 years old; it has stone mullioned windows, which were added about the Elizabethan period: nearly all the rooms are wainscoted, and some of the walls are perforated for small arms: the front of the house is covered with ivy. The Marquess of Anglesey is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are T. J. Levett esq M.P. Sir Robert Peel, bart. ; Lieut.-Col. Dyott. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, sand, rock and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,921 acres of land; rateable value £9,226 ; and the population, including Huddlesford, in 1871 was 869.
HUDDLESFORD, a hamlet, 1 mile 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; rateable value £1,690; gross estimated rental, £1,844 ; the population in 1871 was 31.
WILLIFORD is 2 miles north.
Parish Clerk, Joseph Elsom
POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank. --- John Elsom, postmaster. Letters arrive by foot post from Lichfield at 6.35 a.m.; dispatched at 7.30 p.m.; on sunday at 9.25 a.m.
WALL BOX, Huddlesford, cleared at 4.55 p.m.
SCHOOLS:-
A handsome building for a girls’ & infants’ school was erected by Lieut.-Col. Dyott in 1864
Boys, Edwin Nixon, master
Girls, Miss Elizabeth King, mistress; Miss Caroline Meacham, infants’ mistress
Clarke Thomas
Griffith John Delane
Inge Charles J.P. Broomleasoe house
Legge the Rev. the Hon. George Barrington (vicar)
Paget Lord Berkeley, Whittington hall
Powell James
Taylor Mrs
COMMERCIAL.
Alsopp Thomas, farmer
Bailye Thos. farmer, Thatchmoor house
Bates Emma (Miss), shopkeeper
Bates George, market gardener & beer retailer
Bates Thomas, farmer
Berks Henry, provision dealer
Booth John, farmer; & at Shenstone
Bridgen Thomas, butcher
Buckinham William, blacksmith
Cartmail Thomas, farmer
Clarke Thomas, farmer
Donellan Thomas, shopkeeper
Elson John, tailor
Elson Joseph, tailor & parish clerk
Freer William, market gardener
Hall Thomas, market gardener
Haskew Frederick William, farmer
Holmes Edward, nurseryman & seedsman ; & at Tamworth street, Lichfield
Hurd Thomas, beer retailer, Marsh
Inge Charles, estate agent, Broomleasoe house
Johnson William, farmer, Brook hay
Langton Thomas, wheelwright
Lees John, shoe maker & shopkeeper
Lockey John, Dog inn
Neville Daniel jun. assistant overseer & provision dealer
Neville Francis, farmer, Huddlesford
Neville Richard, market gardener
Nourse William & Sons, engineers
Nourse Thomas, Peel’s Arms, & coal dlr
Pass Abraham, Bell inn
Pass Edward, jun. bricklayer
Phillips Joseph, butcher
Powell James, farmer
Robinson Thomas, farmer, Rock farm
Robinson William, farmer
Sanders Thomas, The Plough
Smith Francis, farmer
Smith Thomas, farmer
Smith Thomas, Swan
Sturges Eliza (Mrs.), farmer & miller, Bunnins mill
Thomas William Alfred, brick maker & farmer, Huddlesford
Toplis Charles, wheelwright
Walker Charles & Samuel, smiths & wheelwrights
Tamhorn
Booth
Thomas, farmer