BREWOOD, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD, comprising the townships of Brewood, Bishop's Wood, Hide with Wooley, Kiddermore-Green, and Park-Lanes, and the liberties of Chillington, Coven, and Somerford, and containing 2762 inhabitants, of which number, 2263 are in the township of Brewood, 10 miles (S. by W.) from Stafford. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean of Lichfield, rated in the king's books at £6. 17. 8. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a spacious and handsome edifice, in the later style of English architecture with a fine spire; it has recently received an addition of five hundred and sixty sittings, three hundred and seventy-two of which are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £250 towards defraying the expense. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. Brewood, formerly a market town, is pleasantly situated on a branch of the Pent, about a mile south of the Watling-street, and consists of several ranges of houses: it is paved, and well supplied with water from springs. The market, formerly held on Friday, has been discontinued, and the ancient market-house pulled down, though butter and eggs are still exposed for sale, on that day, on its site: a fair for live stock is held on the 19th of September. A branch of the Peak Forest canal communicates with this place, and an act has been lately obtained for .constructing a new canal. Here is a small manufactory for stock locks. Brewood is within the jurisdiction of the court of requests held at Wolverhampton, for the recovery of debts not exceeding £5. Courts leet and baron are held annually. The free grammar school is supposed to have been founded by Dr. Knightley, whose endowment, increased by subsequent benefactors, now produces about £412 per annum. Dr. Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, who, with other distinguished persons, was educated here, ap-. propriated, in the year 1800, two houses for the benefit of the school, one of which was for the usher; at this period also the trust was renewed, and new regulations were adopted by the trustees and visitors. In 1827, it received a bequest of £ 1000 four per cents., pursuant to the will of R. Hurd, Esq., of Worcester, one-half for augmenting the master's stipend, and the remainder for repairs. It is free for the reception of children unlimitedly: the system of education is strictly classical, but there is an English free school in connexion with it; and a National school is supported by subscription. A bank for savings has been established. A small Benedictine nunnery, dedicated .to the Blessed Virgin Mary, is first noticed in the time of Richard I.; at the dissolution its clear revenue was only rated at £11.1.6. Chillington Hall, a noble mansion in this parish, is spproached by a fine avenue of trees, nearly two miles long, in a direct line: there are two Roman Catholic chapels on the estate, one at Birch, and the other at Black-Ladies. In the neighbourhood are two mineral springs, now disused.