Pelsall in 1868

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

"PELSALL, a township in the parish of Wolverhampton, S. division of the hundred of Offlow, county Stafford, 3 miles N. of Walsall, its post town. It is a station on the South Staffordshire railway. The village is situated on the Wyrley and Essington canal. A large portion of the inhabitants are employed in the mines and collieries, and some in the making of nails. There is an extensive iron and brass foundry at Pelsall Wood.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value £150, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The parochial charities produce about £15 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes, with an endowment of £20 per annum. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. The Duke of Sutherland is lord of the manor, which once belonged to Robert de Corbeuil, a Norman baron, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England."

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