Statfold in 1859

STATFOLD, a parish, in the union of TAMWORTH, N. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (N.E.) from Tamworth; containing 45 inhabitants. The parish comprises by measurement 450 acres, the property of Stanley Pipe Wolferstan, Esq., lord of the manor; nearly two-thirds of the land are arable, and the remainder pasture, with a moderate portion of ornamental plantation; the soil is generally a red clay, alternated with sandstone.

The living is annexed to the vicarage of St. Mary, Lichfield: the church, now used only as a chapel for interment, for which purpose it is kept in repair by the proprietor, contains some ancient monuments. This place, under its old name, Stotfold, is one of the prebends in the cathedral, but the revenue has been formed by act of parliament into a Fabric Fund, for repairs, &c., and no prebendary is appointed. 

 

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