ACTON-TRUSSELL, a chapelry in the parish of
BASWICH, eastern division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE,
county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (N.N.E.) from
Penkridge, containing, with Bednall, 562 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Prebendary of Whittington and Baswich
in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, and in the patronage
of the Rev. J. Hamilton Molineaux. The
chapel is dedicated to St. James. The Staffordshire
and Worcestershire canal passes through the chapelry.
The poor children are instructed in the National school
at Penkridge.