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HAYWOOD (GREAT), a township and a chapelry in Colwich and Stow parishes, Stafford. The township lies on the river Trent, the Grand Trunk canal, and the Trent Valley railway, 1¼ mile NNW of Colwich r. station, and 4 NW by N of Rugeley; and has a post-office under Stafford. The chapelry was constituted in 1854. Pop., 904. Houses, 192. Pop. of the Colwich portion, 689. Houses, 145. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110.* Patron, the Earl of Lichfield. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Colwich Parish Lichfield St Chad Parish Staffordshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | GREAT HAYWOOD | HAYWOOD | HAYWOOD GREAT |
| Place: | Great Haywood |
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