SHERIFF-HALES, a parish partly in the Newport
division of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county
of SALOP, but chiefly in the western division of the
hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles
(N. by E.) from Shiffnall, containing, with the hamlet of
Woodcote, 1064 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £ 11.1.8.,
and in the patronage of the Marquis of Stafford. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A milky vitriolic
water is found among the iron mines in the neighbourhood.