In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Haywood like this:
HAYWOOD (GREAT), a township and a chapelry in Colwich and Stow parishes, Stafford. The township lies on the river Trent, the Grand Trunk canal, and the Trent Valley railway, 1¼ mile NNW of Colwich r. station, and 4 NW by N of Rugeley; and has a post-office under Stafford. The chapelry was constituted in 1854. Pop., 904. Houses, 192. Pop. of the Colwich portion, 689. Houses, 145. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110.* Patron, the Earl of Lichfield. The church is good.
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Great Haywood through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Haywood, in Stafford and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24147
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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