Great Barr in 1859

BARR, GREAT, a chapelry, in the parish of ALDRIDGE, union of WALSALL, S. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles 
(S. E.) from Walsall; containing 1087 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Aldridge : the chapel is dedicated to St. Margaret. 

John Addyes, in 1722, bequeathed property for the erection and endowment of a free school for thirteen boys, which number by subsequent benefactions has been augmented to twenty; the endowment consists of a house and land, the latter let for nearly 50 per annum. There is also a national school. 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]