BLITHFIELD, a township and a parish in Uttoxeter district, Stafford. The township lies on the river Blithe, 2 miles W by S of Abbots-Bromley, and 3¼ ENE of Colwich r. station. It includes the hamlet of Admarston; and its Post Town is Abbots-Bromley, under Rugeley. Real property, £3,526.—The parish includes also the liberty of Newton. Acres, 3,193. Real property, £5,952. Pop., 338. Houses, 75. The property is divided among a few. Blithfield House is the seat of Lord Bagot; forms a large quadrangle with towers and pinnacles; and contains some interesting portraits. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £388.* Patron, Lord Bagot. The church has monuments and brasses of the Bagots, the Bromptons, and others; and is good. An endowed school has £35, and other charities £35.

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