Anslow, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Anslow, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Rolleston parish, Staffordshire, near the Grand Trunk Canal, 2 miles S of Tutbury station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 4 NW of Burton-on-Trent. Acreage, 1564; population of the township, 402; of the ecclesiastical parish, which includes part of the civil parish of Tutbury, 564. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; value, £213. The church is imitation Norman, built in 1850. There is a Primitive Methodist 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.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1862.

Churches

Church of England

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Anslow from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Anslow, or Annesley)
• Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Past and Present, 1884

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Anslow 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