HAMMERWICK, a parish in the southern division
of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 3
miles (S.W. by W.) from Lichfield, containing 218 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to
the vicarage of St. Mary, Lichfield, in the peculiar, jurisdiction
of the Dean of Lichfield, endowed with £600
royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and .in
the patronage of certain Trustees. The Wyrley and
Essington canal passes through the parish, in which
the manufacture of nails is carried on.