Edingale or Edinghall, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Edingale or Edinghall, a village and parish in Staffordshire, on the verge of the county, at the river Mease, 2 miles NE of Elford and Haselour station on the M.R., and 6 N of Tamworth. Post town, Tamworth; money order and telegraph office, Elford. Acreage, 871; population of the civil parish, 124; of the ecclesiastical, 165. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient. Buckeridge, the antiquary, was incumbent.

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 Edingale or Edinghall from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Edinghall, or Edengale (Holy Trinity))
• 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 Edingale or Edinghall 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