Sheriff Hales in 1859

SHERIFF-HALES (ST. MARY), a parish, in the union of SHIFFNALL, partly in the Newport division of the hundred of SOUTH BRADFORD, N. division of SALOP, 
but chiefly in the W. division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, S. division of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Shiffnall; containing, with the 
chapelry of Woodcote, 1019 inhabitants.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £11.1.8.; net income, £614; patron and impropriator, the Duke 
of Sutherland. The church is a neat stone edifice, seated on an eminence above a small stream that parts it from Shropshire. There is a chapel of ease at Woodcote; also a place of worship in the parish for Wesleyans, and a school supported by subscription. A milky vitriolic water is found among the iron-mines in the neighbourhood. 

 

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