Hopwas Hays in 1872

HOPWAS-HAYS, an extra-parochial tract in Tamworth district, Stafford; near the river Tame and the Coventry canal, 2 miles W of Tamworth. Acres, 500. Real property, £220. Pop., 2. House, 1. The land was given, at an early period, to the Bishop of Lichfield, to supply stone for repairing his cathedraL 

HOPWAS, a hamlet-chapelry in Wigginton township, Tamworth parish and borough, Stafford; near the confluence of the Tame and the Anker, and near the Trent Valley railway, 2 miles NW of Tamworth. Post-town, Tamworth. Pop., 277. Houses, 70. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Tamworth, in the diocese of Lichfield. There is an endowed school. 

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