WarslowExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries WARSLOW, a chapelry in the parish of ALLSTONEFIELD, northern division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, county of STAFFORD, 7 miles (E.N.E.) from Leek, containing 595 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Allstonefield, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £1200 royal bond and £1400 parliamentary grant. The chapel, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat modern structure. The school, erected by subscription in 1788, is endowed with about £17 per annum, for which twenty children are instructed. |
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