INDEX. 



Birmingham Canal, 173 



Bishops of Lichfield, 118 to 127 



Blitbfield, village aud mansion, Lord 

 Bagot's, 310, church, paintings, and 

 park, 311 



Blore, small parish on Dove, formerly 

 of the Bassetts, its church, &c. 237 



Blore-heath, battle, 12, 328, pedestal & 

 inscription, 330 



Bloxwich, large village and chapel, 1 47, 

 common field, and Wyrley canal, ih. 



Blurton, chapelry of Trentham, 384 



Blymhill, village, church, and hamlets, 

 extent and population, rector, &c. 281 



Blythhury, church aud priory, 77 



Bobbiugton, village, soil, 36', and 

 church, 200 



Bonehill, hamlet of Tamworth, 145 



Bradley colliery, Sir Joseph Scott's, 1 80 



Bradley-in-the-Moors, parish, church, 

 and village, 226 



Bradley Moor, hamlet of Bilston, wild- 

 fire there, and extensive iron works, 

 180 



Bradley, village and hamlets, 279 



Bramshall, parish, church and village, 

 216 



Breewood, large parish, and ancient 

 market town, 253, church spire and 

 grammar-school, 254, manufacture 

 and hamlets, 255 



Brierly-hill Chapel, 195, vast trade in 

 glass, 196 



Briudley, engineer, his life, bred a mill- 

 wright, 429, paper and silk mills* 

 430, inland navigation, Duke of 

 Bridgewater's patronage, 431, tun- 

 uels and aqueducts, canal to Man- 

 chester and the Mersey, 432, Trent 

 and Mersey grand trunk or Stafford- 

 shire canal, 433, Harecastle-hill, 



tunnels, aqueducts over Trent and 

 Dove, Staffordshire and Worcester- 

 shire canal, 434, also Birmingham, 

 Droitwich, Coventry, Oxford, &c. 

 canals, 434, his character, and death, 

 435436 



Brineton, hamlet of Blymhill, " John 

 of Brinelon," 281 



Brockton Hall, Sir Geo. Chetwynd's, 

 266, village, and lodge (Mr. Chet- 

 wynd'*), 267 



Bronie, village, church, &c. 204 



Bromley Regis, on Trent, 68, its an- 

 cient manor and demesne, now Mr. 

 Lane's, its soil, canal, mills, church, 

 and charities, 69 



Brougbton, parish, mansion, church, 

 and plantations, 323 



Bucknall, church, population, &c. 373 



Bunbury, ancient fortress, 9 



Bunster, a limestone mountain, 38 



Buruet, indigenous, 37 



Burslem, origin of the Pottery, 395, ex- 

 tensive works carried on, church, 

 meeting's, population, 396, schools, 

 bath, machinery, canal, clay and 

 coal, Wedgwood family, 397,schrag- 

 ers, horse gins, steam engines, coal 

 mines, 398, varieties of coal, popu- 

 lation how increased, 399 



Burstou, hamlet of Stone, 391 



BURTON-ON/TRENT, antiquities, its ab- 

 bey, and patron saint, 41 2, bridge, 

 burgess rights, town and hamlets, 

 43 44, market, fairs, chronology, 

 manufactures, navigation,and farther 

 hamlets, 459 



Bushbury, village and parish, 180, 

 church and monuments, 181, epitaph, 

 hill, mansions, and lows, hamlets, 

 Fordhouses, Moseley, and Essing- 

 ton, 182 



Bulterton, village and church, 240. 



C. 



Caldon, a small moorland parish, bar-* 

 ren aud dreary, but in limestone in- 

 exhaustible, 235, church, oat bread, 

 ibid. 



Callingvvood, near Needwood, 60, Ro- 

 man coins found. 



Calton, township and chapel, 235 



Camps, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 



Cannock, an ancient market town, 

 very extensive parish, 26 i, water- 

 works, 262, hamlets, church, and 

 heath, 2634, Mr. Gilpia's manu- 

 factory, ibid. 448 



CanwelLJ Sir Robert Lawley's, 164 



Castles, 8, 10, 11, 14, 190, 227, 268, 

 308 



Castle Church, parish near Stafford, 

 267, hamlets and church, 268, an- 

 cient castle, demolished and new 

 erected, ibid. 



Caverswall, parish and village, 232, 

 castle and hamlets, modern nunnery, 

 ibid, church and monuments, 233 



Charles II. his escape, 15, 16 



Chartley Castle, 1 1 , Earl Ferrers, 308, 

 Chartley Park, and wild cattle, 309 



CHEADLE, market town, population 

 and manufactures, 229, brass and 

 copper works, church, chapel, &c. 

 230 



Cheapness of former times, 379 



