HALES, a township and a chapelry in Drayton-in-Hales parish, Stafford. The township is united with BLOORE, which see. The chapelry lies adjacent to Salop, 2 ½ miles E of Market-Drayton r. station, and was constituted in 1856. Post town, Market-Drayton. Real property, £2, 599. Pop., 318. Houses, 63. The property is divided among a few. Hales Hall is the seat of the Rev. A. H. Buchanan. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Rev. A. H. Buchanan. The church was built in 1856. There is a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))