In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Forebridge like this:
FOREBRIDGE, a chapelry in Castle-Church parish, Staffordshire; adjacent to the Northwestern and the Stafford and Shrewsbury railways, 1 mile SW of Stafford. Post town, Stafford. Rated property, £8, 000. Pop., 2, 531. Houses, 519. The property is much sub-divided. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160.* Patron, the Incumbent of Castle-Church. The church is good; and there is a national school.
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Forebridge through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Forebridge, in Stafford and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24566
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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