Description

Baswich or Berkswich, a township and a parish in Staffordshire. The township is united to two other tracts, under the name of Baswich, Milford, and Walton. It lies on the Stafford and Worcester Canal, 2 miles SE of Stafford, and it contains the post office of Milford under Stafford, and a sub-office at Walton, and has a station at Milford on the Trent Valley branch of the L. & N.W.R. The parish contains also the township of Brockton and that of Acton-Trussell and Bednall. Acreage, 2036; population of the civil parish, 625 ; of the ecclesiastical, 837. The living is a vicarage, united with the curacy of Walton, in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £171 with residence. The church is a plain red-brick building, situated on the east bank of the river Penk. The vicarage of Acton-Trussell-with-Bednall is a separate benefice.