Place:Wrottesley, Staffordshire, England

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NameWrottesley
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.6127°N 2.2232°W
Located inStaffordshire, England
See alsoSeisdon (hundred), Staffordshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Seisdon Rural, Staffordshire, Englandrural parish of which it was part 1894-1974
South Staffordshire (district), Staffordshire, Englandnon-metropolitan district in which it has been located since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"WROTTESLEY, a prebend in Tettenhall-Regis parish, Stafford[shire]; 4½ miles WNW of Wolverhampton. It contains extensive vestiges of an ancient city, supposed to have been Roman; and it gives the title of Baron to the family of Wrottesley. Real property: £2,871. Population: 285. [Wrottesley House] was built in the 17th century, and was the seat of Lord Wrottesley. The estate belonged anciently to Evesham abbey; and passed to the Wrottesleys, in the time of Henry II., in exchange for Moreton."

The map indicates that the parish is separated into two parts, surrounding the parish of Codshall. As explained in the Gazetteer above, it was part of the ancient parish of Tettenhall-Regis, the principal part of which is Tettenhall, which was an urban district until 1974 and is now a part of Wolverhampton.

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