Ellenhall, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Ellenhall, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, 2 miles SSE of Eccleshall, 4 W of Norton-Bridge station on the L. & N.W. and North Staffordshire railways, and 3½ from Great Bridgeford station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Eccleshall. Acreage, 2549; population, 244. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £135 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lichfield. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1886. It contains a Norman font; in the churchyard is an ancient cross. The shaft is ancient, but the cross is modern. A crucifix recently erected is in lieu of an ancient sun-dial.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ellenhall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ellenhall 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