Bushbury in 1872

BUSHBURY, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands adjacent to the Birmingham and Stafford railway, near the Stafford and Worcester canal, 3 miles N by E of Wolverhampton: and has a station on the railway. The parish includes also the hamlet of Moseley and the township of Essington; and its post-town is Wolverhampton. Acres, 6,377. Real property, £13,101. Pop.. 2,051. Houses, 393. 
The property is subdivided. Bushbury Hall is a chief residence. Coal is worked.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £159. Patrons, Mr. Horden and others. The church was built in 1460; and is good. Charities, £35. 

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following places in Bushbury is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Essington
• Moseley

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]