Ettingshall, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Ettingshall, a village in Bilston and Sedgley townships, and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1841 from the civil parishes of Sedgley, Bilston, and Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. The village is 2 miles SSE of Wolverhampton, and has a station of the name of Ettingshall Road on the L. & N.W.R., and one named Priestfield on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Wolverhampton. Population, 6493. The chief trade is in iron and coaL There are large works for boiler-tubes, hollow ware, and galvanized sheets. The Bilston gas-works and flour mills are situated here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £216. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern, in the Early English style. 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.

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

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Ettingshall

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ettingshall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ettingshall 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