Great Wyrley, Staffordshire

Description
Wyrley, Great, a township in Cannock parish, and an ecclesiastical parish including Cheslyn Hay parish, Staffordshire. The township is 1 1/2 mile S of Cannock, and 8 miles N by W of Walsall. It has a station, of the name of Wyrley and Church Bridge, on the Walsall and Stafford branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Walsall; money order office, Cheslyn Hay; telegraph office, Bridgtown. Acreage, 1648; population, 1151. There is a parish council consisting of nine members, and a working-men's institute. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. Population, 3217. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Cannock. The church was built in 1845. There is a Wesleyan chapel.