Coven, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Coven, a liberty, a village, and an ecclesiastical parish in Brewood parish, Staffordshire, adjacent to the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal, 1½ mile SSW of Four-Ashes station on the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles SE of Brewood, and 5 N of Wol-verhampton. There is a post office under Wolverhampton; money order and telegraph office, Brewood. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1858, and includes the hamlet of Standeford. Population, 619. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £288 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Brewood. The church is a cruciform building erected in 1857. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Coven from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Coven)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Coven 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser