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 16 acres 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.  The Roman Catholic church at Whittington Heath is served from Lichfield. 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 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 land is chiefly owned by the farmers.  Gas and electricity are available.  Water is supplied by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. 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, 1 ½ 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. Office, Whittington. Letters arrive from Lichfield.

Post, M.O. & T. 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.)

Colquhoun Edgar Edmund, Whittington House

Corn Edmund Richards, Whittington Old Hall

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

Gordon Charles, Whittington lodge

Inge Charles William Giffard, J.P. Broom Leasoe

Smith Miss Frances Ethel, Whittington Fields

COMMERCIAL.

Early closing day, Thursday.

Marked Thus * farm 150 acres or over.  

Aston Frederick, baker

Ball Horace, farmer, Rock farm

Barker Chas. farmer, Mill farm

Barracks  Garage (The) (T. C. Wathes & T. R. Reynolds, proprietors), motor engineers, Tamworth road. T N 203

*Baxter Sydney, farmer, Church farm. T N 223

Bell Inn (Saml Bradbury)

Boston Chas. farmer, Court farm

Britt Jane (Mrs.), tobccnst

Brough Wilfred, farmer, Thatchmoor farm

Cope T. H. farmer, Grange farm. T N 237

Coxe Alfd. Geo. poultry farmer, Callingswood. T N 256

Deakin Edmund Geo. market gardnr. Bridge ho. T N 224

Deakin Horace Fredk. market gardnr. Sheepwash farm. T N 217

Dog Inn (Frank Foster). T N 252

Evans Jn. Rd. cycle agt

Farnsworth Harry, butcher

Foden R. F. (Mrs.), farmer Willowford. T N 229

*Grundy Frank, farmer, Whittington Hurst. T N 274

Horse & Jockey P.H. (Alfd. Smith) (postal address, Lichfield). Lichfield 286

Imber Chas. tailor, Barracks

Leach A. E. (Mrs.), shopkpr. T N 253

Linney Thos. motor car garage. TN 206

Lyde Raymond, farmer, Brookhay (letters thro’ Lichfield). T N

Mann Thos. farmer,

Moody Richard, builder

Neale Arth. clerk to the Parish Council

Pearce Edwd.Wm, farmer, Cross roads. T N 238

Pearce Percy, bldr. T N 230

Plough P.H. (Geo. Hodges) Huddlesford

Rickwood Caroline (Mrs.), shopkpr

*Rock Jack, farm bailiff to R. Dyott esq. Marsh farm

Shaw G. H. & Son, painters, Huddlesford

Soldiers' Home (John Key, supt.), The Heath. T N 235

Swan P.H. (Vincent Drury)

Walker Horace, shopkpr.

 *Wells Fras. Rt. farmer, Hurst farm, T N 215

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

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

Windridge Thomas, smith