WHITTINGTON is a parish and compact and well built village, pleasantly seated 3 miles south-east from Lichfield Junction station on the North Western section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 4 north west from Tamworth, in the Lichfield division of the county, hundred of North Offlow, petty sessional division of Lichfield and Brownhills, rural district, county court district and rural deanery of Lichfield, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St Giles is a plain building of brick in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower of stone with a lofty spire, containing a clock and 3 bells: the church was restored in 1881 at a cost of £1,000, and affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1575. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £350, including 16acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, and held since 1929 by the Rev. Ernest Fleming M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford: a new vicarage was built in 1886 from funds supplied by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. There is a small Congregational chapel. The general charities amount to £6  10s. yearly. The Heath, consisting of 338 acres, on the south-east side of the village, and formerly used as an open sheep walk, is now the property of the War Department. The Whittington Barracks and depots of the South and North Staffordshire Regiments, situated on the Heath, occupy a site of 40 acres in a fine position. The Barracks are available for 2250 men, exclusive of officers. The Staffordshire Infantry Brigade is permanently quartered here, and buildings have been erected as quarters for the married men and their families. A Roman Catholic church has been erected at the Barracks. The Old Hall, the residence of Edmund Richards Corn esq. is a large and ancient brick mansion, with stone mullioned windows, added about the Elizabethan period: nearly all the rooms are wainscoted, and some of the walls are loop-holed for small arms:  the front of the house is covered with ivy. The grounds are extensive and well laid out. Broome Leasoe, the property and residence of Charles William Giffard Inge esq. J.P. is pleasantly situated in its own grounds, 1½  miles north-east from the village. The Marquess of Anglesey G.C.V.O. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Mrs B. B. Seckham, Mr Sydney Baxter and Sir Robert Peel, bart. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, sand, rock and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. Market gardening is extensively carried on. The area is 2,686 acres of land and inland water; the population in 1931 was 2,731.

By the Staffordshire Review order, 1934, part of this parish was transferred to the parish of Streethay, and by the same Order part of Fulfen was added to Whittington.

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

Hurst is a hamlet, 1½ miles north-north-east,situated close to the river Tame.

Willowford is 2 miles north, on the west bank of the river Tame.

Post, M.O.T.& T.E.D. Office, Whittington. Letters arrive from Lichfield.

Post, M.O.T. & T.E.D. Office, Whittington Barracks. Letters through Lichfield.

Police Station.

WHITTINGTON

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

(For T.N’s see general list of Private Residents at end of book.)

Beckett John Robert, Boxwell

Corn Edmund Richards, Whittington Old Hall

Coxe Alfred George, Callingswood

de Falbe Brig.- Gen. Vigant W., C.M.G., D.S.O., D.L., J.P. Whittington House

Fleming Rev. Ernest M.A. (vicar), Vicarage

Holton Mrs, L. M., Fairfax

Inge Charles William Giffard, J.P. Broom Leasoe

Mann Frederick, Hollycot Villa

Shipley Conway W. C., Whittington Lodge

Smith Miss Frances Ethel, Whittington Fields

Sturgess Mrs. C. Hollies

Swaine Randolph, Lewis House

Travis Rev. John Ferguson M. A. Whittington Holt

COMMERCIAL.

Early closing day, Thursday.

Marked Thus * farm 150 acres or over.

Alsopp Jn. farmer, Rock farm

Aston Frederick, baker

Barker Chas. Farmer, Mill farm

Barracks  Garage (The) (T. C. Wathes & T. R. Reynolds, proprietors), motor engineers, Tamworth road. T N 3

Baskerville Roland Dennis, farmer, Marsh Farm

*Baxter Sydney, farmer, Church farm. T N 22

Boston Chas. farmer, Court farm

Bradbury S. Bell Inn

Britt Jane (Mrs.), tobccnst

Brough Wilfred David, farmer, Thatchmoor farm

*Burton Arth. farmer, Whittington Hurst

Clarke Horace J. Swan P.H

Cope T.H. farmer, Grange farm

Deakin Edmund Geo. market gardnr. Coton farm

Deakin Horace Fredk. market gardnr. Sheepwash farm

Drury Vincent, haulier

Evans Jn. Rd. cycle agt

Farnsworth Harry, butcher

Foster Frank, Dog Inn

Hodges Geo. Plough P.H. Huddlesford

Imber Chas. tailor, Barracks

Leach A. E. (Mrs.), shopkpr

Lees Geo. Vincent, farmer, Brookhay (postal address, Lichfield)

Linney Thos. Motor car garage. T N 6

Lloyd Alfd. farmer, Willowford

Mann Fredk. insur. agt

Mann Thomas, farmer,

Moody Richard, builder

Neale Arth. clerk to the Parish Council

Nevill Albt. Peel Arms P. H.

Pearce Edwd.Wm, farmer, Cross roads. T N 38

Pearce Percy, bldr. T N 23

Rickwood Caroline (Mrs.), shopkpr

Shaw G. H. & Son, painters, Huddlesford

Smith Alfd. beer retlr. Tamworth rd. (Postal address, Lichfield). Lichfield 286

Soldiers’ Home (John Key, supt.), The Heath. T N 35

Walker Horace, shopkpr. T N 41

*Wells Fras. Rt. farmer, Hurst farm, T N 15

Wheat George, farmer, Brookhay (postal address, Lichfield)

Whittington Barracks Golf Club (R. H. Jacobs, hon. sec.). T N 12