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Tettenhall - formerly
in Staffordshire - is now very much part of Wolverhampton City.
150 years ago it was described as a “large and fertile parish” comprising
some 8,000 acres of land.
Its boundaries then embraced the true villages of Tettenhall, Tettenhall
Wood, Compton Liberty and the Prebends of Pirton-with-Trescott, Bovenhill,
Pendeford, and Wrottesley.
In the mid 1850s Lord Wrottesley was the Lord of the Manor of Tettenhall
Clericorum.
Tettenhall village stood near the centre of the parish, two miles
North West of Wolverhampton, and comprised “many respectable
houses on and near the Shiffnal (sic) Road, at the foot and on the
declivities of a lofty and picturesque eminence, which rises above
the Smestow rivulet, and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire
Canal.”
The houses were then “chiefly occupied by gentry, and by
persons engaged in the trade and commerce of Wolverhampton.
“ Several handsome houses, and a great number of cottages, have been
built at nearby Tettenhall Wood, since its enclosure in 1809, mostly
occupied by lockmakers.”
Wrottesley Hall itself, erected in 1696, with an estate of 2,319 acres,
was the seat and property of Lord Wrottesley, whose ancestors possessed
it since the time of Henry III.
[Source: History, Gazetteer and Directory
of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]
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With thanks
and acknowledgement to the Wolverhampton History Society for their
kind permission to use many images and descriptions in this section. |
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Inscription on Tettenhall’s famous 1912 landmark clock tower. More
Clock Information (external site). |
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