Description
Canwell, formerly extra-parochial, now a parish, in Staffordshire, on the verge of the county, 5 miles SW of Tarnworth, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Sutton Coldfield. Acreage, 347; population, 78. Canwell Hall is the seat of the Foster family. A Benedictine priory was founded here in 1142 by Geva, daughter of Hugh Lupus, and given at the dissolution to Cardinal Wolsey; a few traces still remain.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
