Ridware, Pipe (St. James)
RIDWARE, PIPE (St. James), a parish, in the union of Lichfield, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4¾ miles (E.) from Rugeley; containing 100 inhabitants. It comprises an area of about 700 acres, the soil of which is in some parts light, and in others a stiff clay; the river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal pass through. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £46; patron, the Chancellor in the Cathedral of Lichfield.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.