Kings Bromley, Staffordshire

Description
King's Bromley, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, on the river Trent, 2 1/2 miles E of Armitage station on the Trent Valley branch of the L. & N.W.R., 5 1/2 ESE of Rugeley, and 5 1/2 N of Lichfield. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Liehfield. Acreage, 3477; population, 560. The manor belonged in Saxon times to Earl Leofric, after the Conquest to the Crown, and was granted by Henry II. to the Corbett family, and is now in the possession of the Lane family. Bromley Manor and Eastfields are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liehfield; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Liehfield. The church is chiefly Perpendicular, and has a square tower, which was restored in 1890, and some memorial windows. There are almshouses and a Primitive Methodist chapel.