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HASELOR is a small village about a mile north-east of Elford, 

 and contains only a few houses and a chapel, which is a prebend 

 of Lichfield Cathedral. This manor passed from the Staffords to 

 the Stanleys, and by marriage to John Brook, Esq. It afterwards 

 became the property of Joseph Girdler, Serjeant-at-Law. 



Haselor-Hall is a curious specimen of those ancient mansions, so 

 common in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire, built chiefly 

 of wood and plaster, with several gable ends, transom windows, &c. 



EDINGALE is a small village, situated on the eastern verge of the 

 county, and the banks of the river Meese. It is about six miles 

 distant from Tamworth, and seven from Lichfield. The church is 

 a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the prebendary of Alrewas. 

 It is a small building with a tower, and is situated on an eminence, 

 but contains nothing remarkable. 



CLIFTON CAMVILLE is a large village and manor, in a pleasant 

 situation. It fills up the eastern angle of the county, and the 

 hundred of Offlow, the point of which angle has been commonly 

 supposed to meet the western point of Leicestershire, in the 

 centre of a cross, dug in the turf of a small common called No-man's 

 Heath. This manor takes part of its name from the situation on a 

 bank with the Meese to the north-east ; the latter part of its name 

 is derived from the Camvilles, a family who were in possession of it 

 from the year 1200 to 1315. 



At the time of the general Survey, after the Conquest, it was in the 

 King's own hands, and was then a place of almost as much import- 

 ance as at present, having 46 families, with a church, and a mill. 



It afterwards belonged to Hugh Earl of Chester, and his descen- 

 dants, till carried in marriage to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby. 

 This manor was held from the time of Henry II. by Marmion, and 

 afterwards by the Camvilles. It was for some time in the posses- 

 sion of General Severne, and from him it came by a female branch 

 of the Pye family to the Rev. Richard Watkins, of Rock, Worces- 

 tershire. 



Clifton and Haunton form a valuable manor of several thousand 

 acres: the soil is similar to that of Elford; the valleys on the 

 banks of the brooks are good meadow-land, and the uplands are a 

 strong and mixed loam. Considerable dairies are kept in this 

 parish, and much cheese made. The sheep are generally of the 

 Leicestershire breed, the cows are of the long-horned kind, and give 

 abundance of excellent milk. 



Clifton Camville Church is dedicated to St. Andrew, and is 



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