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From this station Cannock is 5 miles to the eastward. ( continued p.109).

PENKRIDGE is a market-town, parish, and township in the hundred of Cuttlestone, county of Stafford, situated on the river Penk; pop. 2,991. It had a market, which is now discontinued; its fairs are, April 30, for cattle, and first Monday in September, for saddle horses and colts, which is allowed to be one of the best in England. It has also a considerable trade in iron. The parish church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a large Gothic structure, with a square tower; the living is a curacy, and a peculiar in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry: C.V. £24; patron, Lord Hatherton ; perpetual curate, Rev. Joseph Salt, whose residence is on the west side of the Railroad, from which access to the church is obtained by means of a small tunnel which passes under it. Here is a school in which 200 children are educated on the Madras system, the whole expense of which is defrayed by Lord Hatherton, there is also an endowed school for 12 boys and 8 girls.

CANNOCK, a parish and township in the east division of the hundred of Cuttlestone; pop. 3,116; An. As. Val. £4,167. The church, dedicated to St. Luke, is a Gothic structure; the living is a curacy, and a peculiar of the