Blithfield, Staffordshire Family History Guide
Blithfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Newton, Admaston, Admarston, and Blithfield with Admarston.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1538
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Blithfield
Historical Descriptions
Blithfield
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BLITHFIELD, a township and a parish in Uttoxeter district, Stafford. The township lies on the river Blithe, 2 miles W by S of Abbots-Bromley, and 3¼ ENE of Colwich r. station. It includes the hamlet of Admarston; and its Post Town is Abbots-Bromley, under Rugeley. Real property, £3,526. The parish includes also the liberty of Newton. Acres, 3,193. Real property, £5,952. Pop., 338. Houses, 75. The property is divided among a few. Blithfield House is the seat of Lord Bagot; forms a large quadrangle with towers and pinnacles; and contains some interesting portraits. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £388. Patron, Lord Bagot. The church has monuments and brasses of the Bagots, the Bromptons, and others; and is good. An endowed school has £35, and other charities £35.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Admaston
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Admaston, a hamlet, in the parish of Blithfield, union of Uttoxeter, hundred of South Pirehill, N. division of Staffordshire; containing 59 inhabitants.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV
Poll Books
Blithfield Staffordshire Poll Book 1868
Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Uttoxeter
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Rugeley
- Poor Law Union: Uttoxeter
- Hundred: South Pirehill
- Province: Canterbury