Codsall, Staffordshire

Description
Codsall, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. the village stands near the boundary with Salop and the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal, 3 1/2 miles S of Brewood, and 5 NW of Wolverhampton, and has a station on the G.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wolverhampton. The parish includes also the township of Oaken and has two other post offices, Codsall Wood and Oaken (money order office), under Wolverhampton. Acreage, 2994; population, 1436. Oaken House and Pendryl Hall are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £260 with residence. Pa>-tron, Lord Wrottesley. The church is Early English, with Norman traces, was rebuilt in 1848 excepting the tower, and contains tombs of the Wrottesleys. There is a dissenting chapel used by various denominations.