TIDDESLEY-HAY, a liberty (extra-parochial), containing
about three thousand five hundred acres, in the
eastern division of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county
of STAFFORD, 2 miles (N. E.) from Penkridge, containing
43 inhabitants. This was a royal chace, adjoining
that of Cannock, till the reign of Elizabeth, who
granted it jointly to the Earls of Warwick and Leicester,
by whom it was sold to Sir Edward Littleton, of
Pillaton Hall: there were at that time no other enclosures
upon it than two ancient parks, and in that state
it continued till recently, when it was wholly enclosed
by E. J. Littleton, Esq. M.P., its present proprietor.