Yoxall, Staffordshire

Description
Yoxall, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands near the river Trent, 4 miles W of Barton and Walton station on the Derby and Birmingham section of the M.R., and on the Walsall and Derby section of the L. & N.W.R., 5 NE of Armitage station on the Trent Valley section of the L. & N.W.R., and 7 NNE of Lichfield, and has a post and money order office under Burton-on-Trent; telegraph office, Kings Bromley. The parish includes the hamlets of Hadley End, Hoarcross, Longcroft, Morrey, Woodhouses, Wood Lane, and Wood Mill, and comprises 5103 acres; population of the civil parish, 1286; of the ecclesiastical, 1001. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £428 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is partly Early English, was restored in 1868, and contains some good monuments. A small manor is attached to the rectory. There are Roman Catholic and Primitive Methodist chapels and a cottage hospital.