Burntwood in 1859

BURNTWOOD, a chapelry, in the parish of ST. MICHAEL, LICHFIELD, union of LICHFIELD, S. division of the hundred of OFFLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Lichfield; containing, with the townships of Edgehill and Woodhouses, 749 inhabitants. About 100 persons are employed in the manufacture of nails. At a short distance, on the south of the parish, passes the Wyrley and Essington canal. 

The living is a perpetual curacy; net. income, £78; patron, Vicar of St. Mary, Lichfield; appropriators, Dean and Chapter of Lichfield: the glebe contains about 6 acres. The chapel, which was erected in 1820, contains 250 sittings. A school is supported by a gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Ball. At Edial, in the chapelry, the celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson resided, in 1736.

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]