MAER, a parish in the northern division of the
hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, comprising
the township of Maer, and the hamlet of Maerway-
Lane, and containing 451 inhabitants, of which number
232 are in the township of Maer, 7 miles (N. N.w.) from
Eccleshall. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, and in the patronage of J. Wedgwood, Esq.
The river Tern has its source in a small lake here,
which covers about twenty-two acres.