Bushbury, Staffordshire

Description
Bushbury, a village, a township, and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands near the Stafford and Worcester Canal, 3 miles N by E of Wolverhampton, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post and money order office under the name of Bushbury Lane (T.S.O.) under Wolverhampton, which is the telegraph office. The township includes also the hamlets of Moseley and Oxley. Acreage, 3520 ; population, 2252. The parish includes also the township of Essington; population, 3620. Moseley Court and Oxley Manor House are the chief residences. At Moseley Old Hall, Charles II. was concealed after the battle of Worcester. At Essington are collieries and a brick and tile manufactory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £234 with residence. The church is very ancient, partly Norman, .and has an embattled tower with six bells, and an open timber roof; the east window is of the Decorated period, and in the chancel are sedilia and a piscina; there are an ancient font, an ancient monument to Hugh de Bushbury, and some later monuments. Essington has a chapel of ease, and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at New Town.