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BUSHBURY, a village and a parish in Penkridge district, Stafford. The village stands adjacent to the Birmingham and Stafford railway, near the Stafford and Worcester canal, 2¾ miles N by E of Wolverhampton; and has a station on the railway. The parish includes also the hamlet of Moseley and the township of Essington; and its Post Town is Wolverhampton. Acres, 6,377. Real property, £13,101. Pop., 2,051. Houses, 393. The property is subdivided. Bushbury Hall is a chief residence. Coal is worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £159.* Patrons, Mr. Horden and others. The church was built in 1460; and is good. Charities, £35.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bushbury Parish Cannock Poor Law Union/Registration District Staffordshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Bushbury |
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