Place:Farewell and Chorley, Staffordshire, England

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NameFarewell and Chorley
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.711°N 1.915°W
Located inStaffordshire, England
See alsoSouth Offlow Hundred, Staffordshire, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
Lichfield Rural, Staffordshire, Englandrural district of which it was a part 1894-1974
Lichfield (district), Staffordshire, Englandmunicipal district in which it has been located since 1974
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Farewell and Chorley is a civil parish in Lichfield District in Staffordshire, England. The villages of Farewell and Chorley, that make up the parish, lie 3 or 4 miles north-west of the City of Lichfield. The parish council is a joint one with Curborough and Elmhurst.

Farewell Priory was founded by Roger de Clinton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, (1129 – 48).

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A 19th century description

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

"FAREWELL, a parish in Lichfield district, Stafford[shire]; near the Trent Valley railway, 2¾ miles NW of Lichfield. It contains the hamlet of Chorley; and its post town is Lichfield. Acres: 1,049. Rated property: £1,601. Population: 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."
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