Codsall in 1859

CODSALL (ST  NICHOLAS) a parish, in the union, and S division of the hundred of SEISDON, S division of the county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (N.W.) from Wolverhampton; containing, with the townshio of OAKEN, 1096 inhabitants. The parish comprises 2869 acres; about one third of which is pasture, and the rest arable, and is intersected by the road from London to Shrewsbury: Stone is quarried for building.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income £146; patron Lord Wrottesley; impropriator,  Duke of Sutherland; The chancel of the church contains a monument, erected in 1630, on which rests a recumbent effigy of Walter Wrottesley. A school was founded in 1716, by Dorothy Derby.

OAKEN, a township, in the parish of CODSALL, union of SEISDON, S. division of the hundred of SEISDON and of the county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (N.W. by W.) from Wolverhampton; containing 324 inhabitants. It comprises 1298 acres, of which 40 are common or waste. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £212. 
 

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