Whittington in 1872

WHITTINGTON, a parish, with two hamlets, in Lichfield district, Stafford; 2 miles ESE of Lichfield railway station. It has a post-office under Lichfield, .Acres, 2,921. Real property, £5,781. Pop., 819. Houses, 184. The property is subdivided.

The manor belonged to the Everards, passed to the Pagets, and belongs now to the Marquis of Anglesey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £351. Patron, T.J. Levett, Esq. The church is good; and there is an endowed school with £12 a-year

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