Lapley, Staffordshire

Description
Lapley, a township and a parish in Staffordshire. The township lies 1 mile E of the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal, 1 1/2 N of Watling Street, and 3 1/2 miles WSW of Penk-ridge. It has a post office under Stafford; money order and telegraph office, Brewood. The parish contains also the township of Wheaton Aston. Acreage, 3542; population, 767. A Black priory was founded here, in the time of Edward the Confessor, by Algar, Earl of Mercia, as a cell to St Remigius Abbey at Eheims, was transferred by Henry V. to Tong College in Salop, and went at the Reformation to Sir Richard Manners. Some remains still exist and form part of four buildings. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Wheaton Aston, in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £148 with residence. The church is large, was originally cruciform, and has Norman portions; it was almost destroyed in the Civil War, and was restored in 1857. A chapel of ease and Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels are at Wheaton Aston.