Description
Essington, a township in Bushbury parish, Staffordshire, near the Wyrley Canal, 2 1/4 miles NW of Bloxwich station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4^ NE by N of Wolverhampton. It has a post office under Wolverhampton; money order and telegraph office, Wednesfield. Acreage, 3054; population, 1368. An iron church, to accommodate 260 persons, was erected here in 1858-9. There are collieries'and brick and tile manufactories. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
