Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOPWAS

HOPWAS, a hamlet-chapelry in Wigginton township, Tamworth parish and borough, Stafford; near the confluence of the Tame and the Anker, and near the Trent Valley railway, 2 miles NW of Tamworth. Post town, Tamworth. Pop., 277. Houses, 70. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Tamworth, in the diocese of Lichfield. There is an endowed school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tamworth AP/Tn/CP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Hopwas

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