Description
Pelsall, a parish in Staffordshire, on the Wyrley Canal, 3 miles NNE of Walsall, with a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Walsall. Acreage, 12 63; population, 3364, There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1840. There are coal mines in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £290. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church formerly belonged to the canons of Wolverhampton; it was rebuilt in 1844, and a new chancel was added in 1889. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
