BASWICH, a parish in the eastern division of
the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD, 2?
miles (E. S. E.) from Stafford, comprising the chapelries
of Acton-Trussel and Bednall, and the townships 01
Brockton, Milford, and Walton, and containing 1376
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Whittington
and Baswich in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £2000 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of J. Inge and
J. N. Seal, Esqrs., alternately. The church is dedicated
to the Holy Trinity. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire
canal passes through the parish.