TATENHILL, a parish in the northern division of
the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 32. mjies
(W. S. W.) from Burton upon Trent, containing, with'
the chapelries of Barton under Needwood and Wichnor
and the township of Dunstall, 2059 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, annexed to the deanery of Lichfield
in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £26. 1. 8.
The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The Grand Trunk
canal passes through the parish, which is in the honour
of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisditx
tion of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third-
Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.