WHITTINGTON, a parish, with two hamlets, in Lichfield district, Stafford; 2½ miles ESE of Lichfield r. station. It has a post-office under Lichfield. Acres, 2,921. Real property, £5,781. Pop., 819. Houses, 184. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to the Everards, passed to the Pagets, and belongs now to the Marquis of Anglesey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £351. Patron, T. J. Levett, Esq. The church is good; and there is an endowed school with £12 a year.

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