Farewell in 1872

FAREWELL, a parish in Lichfield district, Stafford; near the Trent Valley railway, 3 miles NW of Lichfield. It contains the hamlet of Chorley; and its post-town is Lichfield. Acres, 1,049. Rated property, £1,601. Pop., 209. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few. A small Benedictine nunnery was founded here, about 1140, by Bishop Clinton; and given, at the dissolution, to Cardinal Wolsey.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £50. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church belonged to the nunnery, and is tolerable. Charities, £31. 
 

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]