Chasetown, Staffordshire

Description
Chasetown, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 1 1/4 mile N of Brownhills station on the L. & N.W.R. and M.R., and 2 1/4 miles W of Burntwood. It forms a joint township with Burntwood in the parish of St Michael, Lichfield, and has a post and money order office under Walsall; telegraph office; Brownhills ; there is another post and money order office at Chase Terrace. There are extensive collieries owned by the Cannock Chase Company. An institute, with reading rooms, &c., was built in 1883. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1:867 out of the parishes of Burntwood, Ogley Hay, and St John Hammerwich. Population, 4560. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Burntwood. The church is modern, Lombardo-Venetian in character, and internally is considered one of the prettiest churches in the neighbourhood. There is also a mission church at Chase Terrace, and there are Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels.