Codsall in 1872

CODSALL, a village and a parish in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The village stands near the boundary with Salop, the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, and the Birmingham and Shrewsbury railway, 5 miles NW of Wolverhampton; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Wolverhampton. The parish includes also the township of Oaken; and has two other post-offices, Codsall-Wood and Oaken, under Wolverampton. Acres, 2,580. Real property, £8,678. Pop., 1,204. Houses, 274.

Wrottesley Hall here is the seat of Lord Wrottesley. There is a strong sulphurous spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £146. Patron, Lord Wrottesley. The church was early English, with Norman traces; was recently rebuilt, excepting the tower; is now a very beautiful structure; and contains tombs of the Wrottesleys. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £53. 

OAKEN, a township in Codsall parish, Stafford; 5 miles NW of Wolverhampton. It has a post-office under Wolverhampton. Pop., 314. Houses, 73.

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