Place:Canwell, Staffordshire, England

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NameCanwell
TypeCivil parish
Located inStaffordshire, England
See alsoSouth Offlow Hundred, Staffordshire, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
Tamworth Rural, Staffordshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1934
Hints, Staffordshire, Englandparish into which it was absorbed in 1934
Lichfield (district), Staffordshire, Englandmunicipal district of which the area has been part since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog


A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Canwell from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CANWELL, an extra-parochial tract in Tamworth district, Stafford; on the verge of the county, 5 miles SW of Tamworth. Acres: 290. Real property: £681. Population: 43. Houses: 7. Canwell Hall is the seat of Sir F. Lawley, Bart. A Benedictine priory was founded here in 1142, by Geva, daughter of Hugh Lupus; and given, at the dissolution, to Cardinal Wolsey."

Canwell was a civil parish from 1858 until 1934 when it was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Hints.

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