ELFORD, a parish in the southern division of the
hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 4 miles
(N. by W.) from Tamworth, containing 424 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Stafford,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £13. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the
Hon. F. G. Howard. The church is dedicated tq St.
Peter. A school was founded in the reign of James I.,,
by the Rev. John Hill, which, is supported by a moiety
of the produce of various bequests subsequently made,
amounting to about £15 per annum, and applied to the
education of eighty children on the National system.:
The river Tame bounds the parish on the south-west.