Patshull in 1859

PATSHULL (ST. MARY), a parish, in the union of SHIFFNALL, S. division of the hundred of SEISDON and of the county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (S.E.) from Shiffnall; containing 117 inhabitants. It comprises about 1700 acres of profitable land; the surface is generally level, and there are two fine lakes called respectively Patshull and Snowdon Pools.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £80; patron and impropriator, Sir George Pigot, Bart. The tithes were commuted for land in 1799. The church is an elegant edifice, built by Sir John Astley, to whose memory it has a noble tomb, bearing recumbent effigies of himself and his lady.

 

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