BLOXWICH, a chapelry in the parish of WALSALL, southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (N.N.W.) from Walsall, with which the population is returned. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £2500 parliamentary grant. The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry presented by lapse in 1826. The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas, is of modern erection. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and Roman Catholics. Bloxwich, from its vicinity to Walsall, participates to a considerable extent in the manufacture and trade of that town, and derives benefit from the Essington and Wyrley canal, which passes through the chapelry.