Hammerwich in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"HAMMERWICH, a chapelry in the parish of Lichfield St. Michael, S. division of the hundred of Offlow, county Stafford, 7 miles N.E. of Walsall, and 3 S.W. of Lichfield. It is a station on the South Staffordshire railway. The village, which is small, is situated on the south-eastern edge of Cannock Chase. The Wyrley and Essington canal passes through the parish. The impropriate tithes belong to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield."

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]