BRADLEY-in-the-MOORS, a parish in the western
division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of
STAFFORD, 3 miles (N.W.) from Penkridge, containing,
with the liberties of Billington and Woollaston, part of
Alstone, Brough, and Rule (the three last having been
heretofore deemed extra-parochial), and part of Apeton,
723 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Thomas
Anson, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The free grammar school is of early and obscure foundation:
the endowment arises from land producing about
£130 per annum, of which £107 are assigned as a salary
to the master, and £23 to the mistress of a preparatory
school on Dr. Bell's plan, each of whom has a
house and a small plot of ground rent-free: these
schools are free for all children within, the parish, the
boys being received into the grammar school so soon
as they can read in the New Testament.