WEDNESFIELD, a chapelry in that part of the parish of WOLVERHAMPTON which is in the southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 2 miles (N. E. by E.) from Wolverhampton, containing 1468 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the royal peculiar court of Wolverhampton, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty; and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of J. Gough, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Giles, was built in 1750. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Essington and Wyrley canal passes through the parish; and the manufacture of locks, traps, &c., constitutes the principal trade of the place. Edward the Elder, in 911, here defeated the Danes, when two of their kings, two earls, and nine other chiefs, were slain. There were formerly two barrows on the supposed site of the battle, one of which has been levelled.