Pelsall in 1872

PELSALL, a township-chapelry in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; on the Wyrley canal and the South Stafford railway, 3 miles NNE of Walsall. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Walsall. Acres, 1,194. Real property, £8,127; of which £3,815 are in mines, and £2,000 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 1,132; in 1861, 1,892. Houses, 376.

The manor belongs to the Duke of Sutherland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good; and a tower was added to it in 1821. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed national school.

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