Hednesford, Staffordshire

Description
Hednesford, a township in Cannock parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Cannock and Rugeley parishes, in Staffordshire, in Cannock Chase, 2 miles NE of Cannock, and 6 ESE of Penkridge. There is a station on the Walsall and Stafford branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stafford. Coal-mining is largely carried on. A market-hall was built in 1872., There are public rooms for concerts, &c., and two banks. Two weekly newspapers are published. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1870. Population, 10, 293. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £324. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. A church was built in 1868, and there are Wesleyan, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist, and Congregational chapels. Cannock Wood, Littleworth, Hazel Slade, West Hill, Eawnsley, part of Five Ways and Wimblebnry are included in this parish.