HANDSACRE, a parish, joint with Armitage, in the southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Rudgeley, containing, with Armitage, 793 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, within the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Handsacre in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield.