Lichfield St Chad in 1859

LICHFIELD (ST CHAD): The city comprises portions of the PARISHES of St. Mary, of which that part in the borough contains 2634 inhabitants; St. Chad, containing 2036; and St. Michael, containing 1887; and the liberty of the Cathedral Close, which is extra-parochial, with 190 inhabitants.  

The whole parish of St. Chad, including the villages of Elmhurst and Curborough, comprises by measurement 2488 acres ; the rural portion of it is in general land of good quality, and in a state of profitable cultivation. The living is a perpetual curacy; patron, Vicar of St. Mary's: net income, £179. The church, by far the oldest in Lichfield, was rebuilt on the site of an ancient one erected by Bishop Headda, in honour of St. Chad, and near his hermitage. 

An 1859 Gazetteer description of the following places in Lichfield St Chad is to be found on a supplementary page.

Curborough Elmhurst Tillington Worston

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