Orgreave, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Orgreave, a village and a township in Alrewas parish, Staffordshire, on the river Trent, 4 miles NE by N of Lichfield. Orgreave Hall is the chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
| Civil parish | Alrewas | |
| Hundred | Offlow | |
| Poor Law union | Lichfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Orgreave from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Orgreave)
- Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Past and Present, 1884
Maps
Online maps of Orgreave 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)