WHITTINGTON is a parish and compact and well-built village, pleasantly situated 3 miles east from Lichfield, and 4 north-west from Tamworth, 109½ from London, 20 from Stafford, and 33 from Stoke, in the Eatern division of the country, North Offlow hundred and Lichfield union and county court district, rural deanery of Lichfield, archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield.  The church of St. Giles is a neat brick building with square stone tower and lofty spire, and the latter are of more ancient erection: the interior has nave, aisles, and chancel.  The register dates from the year 1575.  The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value about £251, in the gift of Theophilus John Levett, Esq., and held by the Rev. Joseph Taylor, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.  There is a Free school for boys, with small endowment endowment, founded by Mrs Sarah Neal in 1741, and a legacy of £288 15s. 9d., left by the late Rev. Richard Levett in 1800, invested in Three per Cent. Consols, producing £8 13s. 2d.  A handsome building has recently been erected by Lieut.-Col. Dyott, for a girls’ and infant schools.  The Wesleyans have a small chapel here.  The heath, consisting of 338 acres, on the south-east side of the village, is an open sheep walk, where the Lichfield races are held.  Whittington Hall, a large ancient mansion, a little east of the church, is occupied by John Baggaley, Esq.  The Marquis of Anglesey is lord of the manor.  The principal landowners are T.J. Levett, Esq., Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Lieut.-Col. Dyott, and Ralph Wood, Esq.  The soil is various, sand and clay; subsoil, rock and clay.  The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips.  The area is 2,921 acres, and the population in 1861 was 819.

HUDDLESFORD, a hamlet, one mile and a half north from the village is included in this parish.  Hurst is a hamlet one mile and a half  north-north-east.  Tamhorn, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish in the Lichfield union and belong to Sir R. Peel, Bart., 2 miles south-east.  The area is 770 acres and the population in 1861 was 23.   Williford is 2 miles north.

Parish Clerk, Joseph Elson

POST OFFICE. – John Elson, postmaster.  Letters arrive by foot post from Lichfield at 7.35 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m.  Lichfield is the nearest money order office.

SCHOOLS: -

Free, William Barker, master

National, Miss Eleanor Wilcox, mistress, Miss Caroline Meacham, infants’ mistress

Whittington

Baggalley John, esq. Whittington Hall

Clarke Mrs

Dennitts Mr Thomas

Griffith John Delane, esq

Holmes John, esq. The Hill

Inge Charles, esq. Hurst

Jarvis Mrs

Lewis Mr. Samuel

Wood Ralph, esq

COMMERCIAL

Allsop Thomas, shopkeeper

Bacon Thos. farmer, Whittington green

Bates Geo. market gardener & shopkpr

Bates Rbt. market gardener & shopkpr

Bealing John, beer retailer, Marsh

Beech Edmund, saddler

Boys John, Peel’s Arms, & timber & coal merchant, & at Walsall

Bridgen John, Bell, & bricklayer

Bridgen Thomas, butcher

Brown John, shoe maker

Elson John, tailor

Elson Joseph, tailor & parish clerk

Gould John, shoemaker

Green William, farmer, Brook hay

Hall Thomas, market gardener, Bunnin’s mill

Harding Thomas, Plough, Huddlesford

Heathcote Joseph Benjamin, farmer

Holmes Edward, nurseryman, Whittington nursery

Inge Charles, farmer, Hurst

Johnson William, farmer, Brook hay

Langton Thomas, wheelwright

Madeley Joseph, shopkeeper

Moody George, wheelwright

Nevill Daniel, baker

Nevill Francis, farmer, Huddlesford

Nevill Richard, market gardener

Nourse William & Sons, engineers

Pass Edward, shopkeeper

Pipes James, beer retailer & butcher

Powell James, farmer

Redfern Thomas, farmer

Smith James, farmer

Smith Thomas, Swan, & coal dealer, Coalwharf

Sparkes Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Hurst

Startin Edwd., farmer, Thatchmoor ho

Stockley John, Dog

Summerfield Jsph. farmer, Huddlesford

Thomas William, brick maker

Tomlinson George, wheelwright, Brookhay

Toplis John, wheelwright

Wilkes John, farmer, Street hay

Windridge Richard, blacksmith

Wood Ralph, farmer

Tamhorn