WEEFORD, a parish in the southern division of
the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 4 miles
(S. S. E.) from Lichfield, containing, with the hamlet of
Swinfen, and the liberty of Packington, 440 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Prebendary of Alrewas and Weeford in the
Cathedral Church of Lichfield, endowed with £10 per
annum private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Chancellor of the Cathedral
Church of Lichfield. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary.' Weeford is supposed to have taken its name
from a ford on the line of the Roman Watling-street,
called Wayford. Within the parish is the low, termed
Offlow, which gives name to the hundred: it is erroneously
stated to have been the burial-place of Offa, who
was interred at Bedford. A school was founded and
is supported by the family of Lawley.