Patshull in 1817

Description from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)

PATSHULL (PATTESHULL).

Patteshull is a small village about two miles north-west of Pattingham. The church, a curacy in the gift of the Pigots, is an elegant Grecian fabric, erected by Sir John Astley, and contains several good monuments.

The parish consists of Patteshull, Burnhill-green, and Westbach, and contains several farm-houses and small cottages: it is in general level flat land, sandy, gravelly, or marly, producing all kinds of grain and pulse, and is chiefly manured with lime. The air of Patteshull is pure and healthy, the deaths not exceeding one in eighty annually.

The mansion and demesne at Patteshull have always been considered as pre-eminently picturesque, and art has been successfully employed in heightening and embellishing the beauties of nature: the aspect is various, the soil fertile, and trees of every species vegetate in great luxuriance. The park contains within its walls 341 acres. Sir John Astley sold this estate, with Pattingham, to Lord Pigot, for £100,000 whose celebrated diamond paid for it. Snowdon pool, a very fine piece of water, is on this demesne.