Burntwood, Staffordshire

Description
Burntwood, a hamlet, a joint township with Chase Town, and an ecclesiastical parish in the parish of St Michael, Lichfield, Staffordshire. The hamlet lies 2 miles NNW of Hammerwich station on the L. & N.W.R, and 3 1/2 W of Lichfield. It has a post and money order office under Lichfield, which is the telegraph office. The township includes also the hamlets of Edial and Woodliouses. Acreage (with Chase Town), 4425, population, 7113. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1845; population, 2827. Chase Town is a separate ecclesiastical parish. There are extensive collieries, owned by the Cannock Chase Colliery Company, in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £362 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of St Mary's, Lichfield, The church is a brick edifice, erected in 1819, and has an embattled western tower. Maple Hayes, situated on an eminence about 1 1/2 mile from Lichfield, is the chief residence. The Marquis of Anglesey is lord of the manor.