Tettenhall, Staffordshire

Description
Tettenhall, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands on the Stafford and Birmingham Canal, 2 miles WNW of Wolverhampton. It contains many good houses, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wolverhampton. The parish contains the townships of Tettenhall Regis, Tettenhall Clericorum, Compton, The Wergs, Perton, Trescott, and Wightwick, and is divided into the ecclesiastical parishes of Tettenhall Regis and Tettenhall Wood. Acreage, 8306; population, 5982; of the ecclesiastical parish of Tettenhall Regis, 3310; of the ecclesiastical parish of Tettenhall Wood, 2672. Hardware manufacture is carried on. A battle, very disastrous to the Danes, was fought here in 907 or 910. Wrottesley Hall, the seat of Lord Wrottesley, is a handsome mansion erected in 1696, situated in an extensive park. Both the head living and that of Tettenhall Wood are vicarages in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value of the former, £283 with residence; net value of the latter, £261 with residence. Patron of both, Lord Wrottesley. The parochial church is Early English, and was once collegiate. It contains monuments of the Wrottesley family. Tettenhall Wood church was built in 1866, and is in the Early English style. There is a Congregational chapel. Tettenhall College was established in 1864 by the Midland Counties Proprietary Schools Company as a boys' school, and has scholarships and exhibitions to the universities.