Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Essington like this:

ESSINGTON, a township in Bushbury parish, Stafford; near the Wyrley canal and the Northwestern railway, 4½ miles NE by N of Wolverhampton. It has a post office under Wolverhampton. Acres, 3, 957. Real property, £4, 086. Pop. in 1851, 644; in 1861, 976. Houses, 187. The increase of population arose from the extension of mining operations. An iron church, to accommodate 260 persons, was erected here in 1858-9.

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Travel writing

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