WROTTESLEY, (Staffordshire) on the N. W. side of Wolverhampton and b. of Shropshire, has bel. to the Wrottesleys, or Wriothesleys, almost ever since the Norman conquest, as it does now to Sir Richard Wrottesley, Bt. Near Wrottesley-House there is a greyish sort of clay, of which tobacco-pipes are made at Armitage and Lichfield, for it burns very white. In Sir Richard's park are still to be seen the ruins of some old British, or Danish city, as supposed by Camden, because of the several partitions, like streets, running divers ways within the limits of it, which is 3 or 4 m. in compass. Stones of a vast bigness have been found here, one of which made 100 loads; another, after 10 loads were hewn off of it, required 36 yoke of oxen to draw it, and made so great a cistern in a malt-house here, that it wets 37 strikes of barley at a time.