WISHAW, a parish in the Birmingham division of
the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK,
3 miles (E/S. E.) from Sutton-Coldfield, containing,
with the hamlet of Moxhall, 219 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £5. 5., and endowed with £400 royal
bounty. Mrs. Folliott was patroness in 1816. The
church is dedicated to St. Chad. The Birmingham and
Fazely canal passes through the parish. Lady Hackett,
in 1710, gave £100, directing the interest to be applied
for teaching six children: there is also a rent-charge ot
ten shillings, bequeathed, in 1744, by Thomas Bayliss,
for the education of one poor boy.