Hammerwich in 1872

HAMMERWICH, a chapelry in Lichfield-St Michael parish, Stafford: on the south-eastern verge of Cannock Chase, on the Wyrley and Essington canal, and on the South Stafford railway, 3 miles WSW of Lichfield. It has a station on the railway; and its post-town is Lichfield. Real property, £3,213. Pop. in 1851, 270; in 1861, 991. Houses, 198. The increase of pop. arose mainly from the opening of new coal mines. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Anglesey.

The chapelry was reconstituted within narrower limits in 1860. Pop. in 1861, 530. Houses, 101. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £250. Patrons, Certain Trustees. The church is old, but tolerable; and there are charities £34. A mausoleum of the Ashmalls is near the church. 

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