Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ACTON-TRUSSELL and BEDNALL

ACTON-TRUSSELL and BEDNALL, a township chapelry in Baswick parish, Stafford; on the river Trent and the Stafford canal, near Cannock Chase, and near the Northwestern railway, 3 miles N of Penkridge. It has a post office, of the name of Bednall, under Stafford. Acres, 2,547. Real property, £4,782. Pop., 617. Houses, 123. The property is divided among four proprietors. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £234. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is in disrepair.


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

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Feature Description: "a township chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Staffordshire Ancient County
Place: Acton Trussell

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