Page:The Grand junction railway companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham; (IA grandjunctionrai00free).pdf/111

 of Anglesea, who is lord of the manor. The living is a discharged vicarage, and a peculiar of the dean and chapter of Lichfield; K.B. £5 2s. It is endowed with £400 by the Crown and private benefactions. Patrons, the dean and chapter of Lichfield. Here is a Free Grammar School, endowed by Walter Wolsley with estates which now produce £320 per annum, in which the children of the parish may receive a classical or commercial education, at the option of their parents, an endowed School on the national plan, and Almshouses for four aged women. (For Races, see Index.)

LICHFIELD is a city and county of itself, with separate jurisdiction, but within the northern division of the hundred of Offlow, county Stafford, pleasantly situated in the midst of a fertile valley, and surrounded by gently swelling hills, on the banks of a stream which falls into the Trent. Pop. 6,499. It is principally dependent on its local trade. Its neighbourhood, however, produces abundance of vegetables, with which it supplies the populous district which surrounds it. Its breed of cattle is also of a very superior kind, and is in great demand. The Wyrley and Essington Canal passes near the city. Markets, Tuesday and Friday. Fairs, Jan. 10, Shrove Tuesday, and Ash Wednesday, for iron, cheese, bacon, and cattle; May 12, for sheep and cattle; first Tuesday in November, for geese and cheese. Some have derived its name from the term Lichfield, signifying the field of the dead,