Milwich or Millwich, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Milwich or Millwich, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands on a small affluent of the river Trent, 2½ miles NE of Sandon station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 5 SE by E of Stone. It has a post office-under Stone; money order office, Sandon; telegraph office, Sandon railway station. The parish contains also the hamlets of Coton, Garshall Green, and part of Dayhills. Acreage, 3042; population, 515. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £136 with residence. The church was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1792.. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Garshall Green.

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 Milwich or Millwich from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Milwich or Millwich 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

Villages, Hamlets, &c