RUSHALL, a parish in the southern division of
the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 1 mile
(N. E. by N.) from Walsall, containing 670 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £4. 5., endowed with £400
private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Rev. Edward Hellish. The church is
dedicated to St. Michael. The Wyrley and Essington
canal passes through the parish, in which there are
considerable quarries of limestone, and the ruined
walls of an ancient castellated mansion.