Post Office Directory 1868
WHITTINGTON is a parish and compact and well-built village, pleasantly situated 3 miles east from Lichfield, and 4 north-west from Tamworth, 109½ from London, 20 from Stafford, and 33 from Stoke, in the Eatern division of the country, North Offlow hundred and 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 and lofty spire, and 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 perpetual curacy, 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 small endowment endowment, 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 Three per Cent. Consols, producing £8 13s. 2d.  A handsome building has recently been erected by Lieut.-Col. Dyott, for a girls’ and infant schools.  The Wesleyans have a small chapel here.  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 Marquis of Anglesey is lord of the manor.  The principal landowners are T.J. Levett, Esq., Sir Robert Peel, Bart., 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, and the population in 1861 was 819.

HUDDLESFORD, a hamlet, one mile and a half north from the village is included in this parish.  Hurst is a hamlet one mile and a half  north-north-east.  Tamhorn, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish in the Lichfield union and belong to Sir R. Peel, Bart., 2 miles south-east.  The area is 770 acres and the population in 1861 was 23.   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.

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

COMMERCIAL
Allsop Thomas, shopkeeper
Bacon Thos. farmer, Whittington green
Bates Geo. market gardener & shopkpr
Bates Rbt. market gardener & shopkpr
Bealing John, beer retailer, Marsh
Beech Edmund, saddler
Boys John, Peel’s Arms, & timber & coal merchant, & at Walsall
Bridgen John, Bell, & bricklayer
Bridgen Thomas, butcher
Brown John, shoe maker
Elson John, tailor
Elson Joseph, tailor & parish clerk
Gould John, shoemaker
Green William, farmer, Brook hay
Hall Thomas, market gardener, Bunnin’s mill
Harding Thomas, Plough, Huddlesford
Heathcote Joseph Benjamin, farmer
Holmes Edward, nurseryman, Whittington nursery
Inge Charles, farmer, Hurst
Johnson William, farmer, Brook hay
Langton Thomas, wheelwright
Madeley Joseph, shopkeeper
Moody George, wheelwright
Nevill Daniel, baker
Nevill Francis, farmer, Huddlesford
Nevill Richard, market gardener
Nourse William & Sons, engineers
Pass Edward, shopkeeper
Pipes James, beer retailer & butcher
Powell James, farmer
Redfern Thomas, farmer
Smith James, farmer
Smith Thomas, Swan, & coal dealer, Coalwharf
Sparkes Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Hurst
Startin Edwd., farmer, Thatchmoor ho
Stockley John, Dog
Summerfield Jsph. farmer, Huddlesford
Thomas William, brick maker
Tomlinson George, wheelwright, Brookhay
Toplis John, wheelwright
Wilkes John, farmer, Street hay
Windridge Richard, blacksmith
Wood Ralph, farmer