Tettenhall in 1868

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

"TETTENHALL, (or Tettenhall Regis with Tettenhall Clericorum) a parish in the N. division of Seisdon hundred, county Stafford, 2 miles N.W. of Wolverhampton, its post town. It is situated on the Stafford and Birmingham Canal, and comprises the hamlets of Compton, Pirton, Bovenhill, Pendeford, and Wrottesley. The Danes were beaten here in 907 with great slaughter. The Seisdon union poorhouse is situated in this parish, also the Wolverhampton water-works, which have a tower 180 feet in height. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the hardware manufactures, especially that of locks. The population of the parish in 1861 was 3,716.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £196. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a royal free chapel, and was made collegiate before the Conquest, for a dean and four prebendaries. It was repaired and enlarged in 1825, and the tower has recently been restored. It has a painted E. window representing St. Michael and the dragon, and contains monuments to the Wrottesley family, a carved font of great antiquity, and an ancient oak chest 13½ feet in length, hewn out of a solid block. The register dates from 1606. The parochial charities produce about £105 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes, also a chapel for Wesleyans at Tettenhall Wood.

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Tettenhall is to be found on a supplementary page.

Bovenhill Compton Pendeford Pirton-with-Trescott Trescott Wrottesley

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