Hales

HALES, a township, in the parish and union of Drayton, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 2½ miles (E. by S.) from Drayton; containing, with Bloore-in-Tyrley, 561 inhabitants. Hales is the centre division of the parish, and has a small village on an abrupt declivity, near which is Hales Hall. A small chapel was built here in 1833, by the Rev. A. H. Buchanan; and there is also a school.