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