Armitage in 1872

ARMITAGE, a parish in Lichfield district, Stafford ; on the Northwestern railway and the Grand Trunk canal, 5 miles NW of Lichfield. It has a station on the railway and a post-office under Rugeley ; and it includes the hamlet of Handsacre and part of the Village of Brereton. Acres. 1,921. Rated property, £4,943. Pop, 937. Houses, 206. The property is divided among a few.

Armitage Park is a fine mansion. The Grand Trunk canal. in its course within the parish, passes through a large tunnel. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church stands on a rocky eminence; has a Norman doorway, and an interior handsome arch ; and is a picturesque object.

A church stood formerly at Handsacre, but is now a ruin. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans. Charities, £9.

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]