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Fradley

FRADLEY, a township, in the parish of Alrewas, union of Lichfield, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (N. E.) from Lichfield; containing 362 inhabitants. Fradley heath formed part of the extensive waste of Alrewas-Hay, but was inclosed about 1805. Plott says, that in one part of the common is a remarkable spring, vulgarly said to be bottomless, which always overflows, and though in a low situation, permits the plummet to descend 42 feet. On the Fazeley canal, half a mile south of Fradley, are Dunstall wharf and hamlet.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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