Penn, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Penn, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands 2½ miles SSW of Wolverhampton, and has a post office under Wolverhampton; money order and telegraph office, Wolverhampton. The parish comprises the townships of Upper and Lower Penn. Acreage, 1998 and 2005; population, 2667 and 274. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members, and four members are sent to the district council. A section of Upper Penn was constituted an ecclesiastical parish in 1859, under the name of St Philip, Penn Fields. Population, 1759. The head living (population, 1182) of St Bartholomew is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £280. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The living of St Philip is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £240 with residence. St Bartholomew's Church is ancient and has been several times restored. St Philip's Church was erected in 1859. There are a school church at Lower Penn, and a convalescent home at Upper Penu in connection with the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Hospital.

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 Penn

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Penn from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Penn 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