Shareshill, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Shareshill, a township and a parish in Staffordshire. The township lies 3 miles SE of Four Ashes station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5½ NNE of Wolverhampton, and has a post office under Wolverhampton; money order and telegraph office, Cannock. Acreage, 889; population, 350. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The parish includes also the township of Saredon (which has only a parish meeting), and comprises 2827 acres; population, 619. There are remains of two ancient camps. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £200. Patron, Lord Hatherton. The church was rebuilt in 1748, with the exception of the tower, which is of the Decorated period.

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 Shareshill from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shareshill (The Virgin Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Shareshill 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