TIXALL, a parish in the southern division of the
hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles
(E. by S.) from Stafford, containing 198 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £8. 0. 8., and in the patronage
of Sir Clifford Constable, Bart. The church is
dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a Roman
Catholic chapel in the parish. Immense quantities of.
freestone are quarried in the neighbourhood of Tixall
Hall, which fine old mansion was built of that found
upon the spot. Much of it has been used also in the
construction of the bridges and locks of the Stafford1
shire and Worcestershire canal, which passes through
the parish, and of the Trent and Mersey canal in the
vicinity, the stone being peculiarly adapted for resisting
the action of water.