HAMSTALL-RIDWARE, a parish in the northern
division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD,
5 miles (E.N.E.) from Rudgeley, containing 455 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and. Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £6. 1. Of., and in the patronage
of Chandos Leigh, Esq. The church is dedicated to
St. Michael. The parish is bounded on the south by
the river Trent. A free school, erected in 1809, by the
late Rev. Thomas Leigh, is supported by Chandos Leigh,
Esq., and conducted upon the National system.