Colwich in 1872

COLWICH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in the district and county of Stafford. The village stands adjacent to the river Trent, the Grand Trunk canal, and the Trent Valley railway, near the junction of the North Stafford railway, 6 miles ESE of Stafford; is beautifully situated; and has a railway station at the junction, and a post-office under Stafford.

The parish contains also the townships or hamlets of Fradswell, Bishton, Moreton, Wolseley, Shugborough, Swanmoor, and Mount-Priory, the post-office of Wolseley-Bridge, under Stafford, and parts of the townships of Drointon, Great Haywood, Little Haywood, and Hixon. Acres, 8,975. Real property, £26,583. Pop., 1,828. Houses, 371. The property is subdivided.

Shugborough Park, a beautiful mansion, amid charming grounds, is the seat of the Earl of Lichfield, and was the birth-place of Lord Anson, the great navigator. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £514. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient; and contains monuments of the Ansons and the Wolseleys. The vicarages of Fradswell, Great Haywood, and Hixon are separate 
benefices. Charities, £79. The sub-district contains six parishes, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 21,370. Pop., 4,322. Houses, 893. 

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

• Bishton
• Drointon
• Haywood (Great)
• Haywood (Little)
• Hixon
• Moreton
• Mount-Priory
• Shugborough
• Wolseley

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