SHARESHILL, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD,
5 miles (N.N.E.) from Wolverhampton, containing,
with the township of Great and Little Saredon, 583 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, with that
of Penkridge, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese
of Lichfield and Coventry., endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of E. J. Littleton, Esq. The church, dedicated
to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is a brick
building, with an ancient tower of stone. The Staffordshire
and Worcestershire canal crosses the north-western
angle of the parish.