Codsall Staffordshire Family History Guide
Codsall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1756 from a chapelry in Tettenhall Regis Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Oaken.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1587
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1673
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
Codsall
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CODSALL, a village and a parish in Wolverhampton district, Stafford. The village stands near the boundary with Salop, the Birmingham and Liverpool canal, and the Birmingham and Shrewsbury railway, 5 miles NW of Wolverhampton; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Wolverhampton. The parish includes also the township of Oaken; and has two other post offices, Codsall-Wood and Oaken, under Wolverhampton. Acres, 2,580. Real property, £8,678. Pop., 1,204. Houses, 274. Wrottesley Hall here is the seat of Lord Wrottesley. There is a strong sulphurous spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £146. Patron, Lord Wrottesley. The church was early English, with Norman traces; was recently rebuilt, excepting the tower; is now a very beautiful structure; and contains tombs of the Wrottesleys. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £58.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Oaken
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Oaken, a township in Codsall parish, Stafford; 4 ¾ miles NW of Wolverhampton. It has a post-office under Wolverhampton. Pop., 314. Houses, 73.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Wolverhampton
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Tettenhall
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Brewood
- Poor Law Union: Seisdon
- Hundred: South Seisdon
- Province: Canterbury