Hales, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Hales, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Staffordshire, in the Tyrley quarter of Market Drayton parish, Shropshire. The township is united with Blore, and lies adjacent to Salop, 2¼ miles E of Market Drayton. Post town, Market Drayton. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1857. Population, 343. Hales Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £190. The church was built in 1856 from designs by Sir G. Gilbert Scott. The battle of Blore Heath was fought in the parish during the Wars of the Eoses, and a stone cross still marks the spot where Lord Audley fell.

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 Hales from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hales 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