Place:Patshull, Staffordshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"PATSHULL, a parish in the [registration] district of Shiffnall and county of Stafford[shire]; adjacent to Salop [Shropshire], 3 miles S of Albrighton [railway] station, and 7½ W by N of Wolverhampton. Post-town, Pattingham, under Wolverhampton. Acres: 1,850. Real property, with Pattingham: £13,136. Rated property of Patshull alone: £2,925. Population in 1851: 112; in 1861: 104. Houses: 27. The property, with [Patshull] House, belonged once to the Astleys, passed to the Pigots, and belongs now to the Earl of Dartmouth. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £80. Patron: the Earl of Dartmouth. The church is good."

Patshull was a civil parish in Seisdon Rural District from 1894 until 1974, and since 1974 in the non-metropolitan district of South Staffordshire. There is a possibility that it was combined with the neighbouring parish of Pattingham in the municipal reorganization of 1974, but there is no evidence for this. The two ecclesiastical parishes have combined. (Source:Wikipedia)

Patshull Hall is a mid-18th century Baroque house whose estate was landscaped by Capability Brown. St Mary's, Patshull estate’s church, was built at the same time as the Hall. The Hall was formerly the Staffordshire seat of the Earls of Dartmouth.

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