WICHNOR, a chapelry in the parish of TATENHILL,
northern division of the hundred of OUTFLOW, county
of STAFFORD, 6 miles (N. E.) from Lichfield, containing
162 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, endowed with £400 royal bounty.
and in the patronage of T. Levett, Esq. The chapel
is dedicated to St. Leonard,. The Grand Trunk
canal passes through the parish, and communicates
with the neighbouring iron-works. Wichnor is in
the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within
the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury
every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts
under 40s.