Walsall Wood, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Walsall Wood, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Walsall Foreign township, Walsall parish, Staffordshire. The village is 3½ miles NNE of Walsall, and has a station on the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Walsall. The ecclesiastical parish includes Shelfield hamlet, and was constituted in 1845. Population, 4766. For parish council purposes it forms part of the urban district council of Brownhill. Coal-mining and brick-making are the chief industries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £200. Patron, the Vicar of Walsall. The church was erected in 1836. There are chapels of ease at Clayhanger, High Heath, and Shelfield, and there are Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic chapels.

Church Records

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

Maps

Online maps of Walsall Wood 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)