Coppenhall, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Coppenhall, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Penkridge parish, Staffordshire, 3 miles S by W of Stafford, and 4 NW of Penkridge. Post. town, Stafford. Acreage of the township, 907; population, 109. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Dunston, in the diocese of Lichfield; joint net yearly value, £110. Patron, Lord Hatherton. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1866.

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 Coppenhall

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Coppenhall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Coppenhall 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