Essington, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Essington, a township in Bushbury parish, Staffordshire, near the Wyrley Canal, 2¼ miles NW of Bloxwich station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ NE by N of Wolverhampton. It has a post office under Wolverhampton; money order and telegraph office, Wednesfield. Acreage, 3054; population, 1368. An iron church, to accommodate 260 persons, was erected here in 1858-9. There are collieries'and brick and tile manufactories. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
Civil parish | Bushbury | |
Hundred | Cuttlestone | |
Poor Law union | Penkridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Essington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Essington)
Maps
Online maps of Essington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)