WHITTINGTON is a parish and compact and well built village, pleasantly seated 3 miles east from Lichfield, 4 north-west from Tamworth, 109½ from London, in the Eastern division of the county, North Offlow hundred, Elford petty sessional division, Lichfield union and county court district, rural deanery of Lichfield, archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St Matthew is a brick building, consisting of nave, small apse, and square stone tower with lofty spire ; the latter are of more ancient erection. The register dates from the year 1575. The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £251, in the gift of Theophilus John Levett esq. M.P. and held by the Rev. the Hon. George Barrington Legge.  There is a school for boys, partially endowed, founded by Mrs Sarah Neal in 1741, and a legacy of £200, left by the late Rev. Richard Levett in 1800, invested in £3 per Cent. Consols, producing £6.  There is a small Congregational chapel. The general charities amount to £7 yearly.  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.  The barracks now being erected on the Heath will hold 1,200 men, exclusive of officers.  The site occupies 40 acres.  Whittington Hall, the residence of Lord Berkely Paget, is a large and ancient brick mansion, and is said to be about 900 years old; it has stone mullioned windows, which were added about the Elizabethan period: nearly all the rooms are wainscoted, and some of the walls are perforated for small arms:  the front of the house is covered with ivy. The Marquess of Anglesey is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are T. J. Levett esq M.P. Sir Robert Peel, bart. ; Lieut.-Col. Dyott. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, sand, rock and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,921 acres of land; rateable value £9,226 ; and the population, including Huddlesford, in 1871 was 869.

HUDDLESFORD, a hamlet, 1 mile north from the village, is in this parish.

HURST is a hamlet, 1½ miles north-north-east.

TAMHORN, 2 miles south-east, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish in the Lichfield union and belongs to Sir R. Peel bart. M.P.  The area is 770 acres; rateable value £1,690; gross estimated rental, £1,844 ; the population in 1871 was 31.

WILLIFORD is 2 miles north.

Parish Clerk, Joseph Elsom

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank. --- John Elson, postmaster. Letters arrive by foot post from Lichfield at 6.35 a.m.; dispatched at 7.30 p.m.; on sunday at 9.25 a.m.

WALL BOX, Huddlesford, cleared at 4.55 p.m.

SCHOOLS:-

A handsome building for a girls’ & infants’ school was erected by Lieut.-Col. Dyott in 1864

Boys, Edwin Nixon, master

Girls, Miss Elizabeth King, mistress; Miss Caroline Meacham, infants’ mistress

Whittington

Clarke Thomas

Griffith John Delane

Inge Charles J.P. Broomleasoe house

Legge the Rev. the Hon. George Barrington (vicar)

Paget Lord Berkeley, Whittington hall

Powell James

Taylor Mrs

COMMERCIAL.

Alsopp Thomas, farmer

Bailye Thos. farmer, Thatchmoor house

Bates Emma (Miss), shopkeeper

Bates George, market gardener & beer retailer

Bates Thomas, farmer

Berks Henry, provision dealer

Booth John, farmer; & at Shenstone

Bridgen Thomas, butcher

Buckinham William, blacksmith

Cartmail Thomas, farmer

Clarke Thomas, farmer

Donellan Thomas, shopkeeper

Elson John, tailor

Elson Joseph, tailor & parish clerk

Freer William, market gardener

Hall Thomas, market gardener

Haskew Frederick William, farmer

Holmes Edward, nurseryman & seedsman ; & at Tamworth Street, Lichfield

Hurd Thomas, beer retailer, Marsh

Inge Charles, estate agent, Broomleasoe house

Johnson William, farmer, Brook hay

Langton Thomas, wheelwright

Lees John, shoe maker & shopkeeper

Lockey John, Dog inn

Neville Daniel jun. assistant overseer & provision dealer

Neville Francis, farmer, Huddlesford

Neville Richard, market gardener

Nourse William & Sons, engineers

Nourse Thomas, Peel’s Arms, & coal dlr

Pass Abraham, Bell inn

Pass Edward, jun. bricklayer

Phillips Joseph, butcher

Powell James, farmer

Robinson Thomas, farmer, Rock farm

Robinson William, farmer

Sanders Thomas, The Plough

Smith Francis, farmer

Smith Thomas, farmer

Smith Thomas, Swan

Sturges Eliza (Mrs.), farmer & miller, Bunnins mill

Thomas William Alfred, brick maker & farmer, Huddlesford

Toplis Charles, wheelwright

Walker Charles & Samuel, smiths & wheelwrights

Tamhorn

Booth Thomas, farmer