STRAMSHALL, a township in the parish of UTTOXETER,
southern division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW,
county of STAFFORD, 1 mile (N. N.W.) from
Uttoxeter. The population is returned with the parish.
St. Modwenna, on her arrival from Ireland, early
in the ninth century, founded a nunnery here, and presided
as abbess in it. Stramshall is in the honour of
Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction
of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third
Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.