DRAYTON-BASSETT, a parish in the southern division
of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD,
2 miles (S.S.W.) from Tamworth, containing 468 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £7. 8. 4., and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.
The Birmingham and Fazeley canal passes through the
parish.