Pelsall has been recorded since the 10th Century as Peoleshale and later Peleshale and later still Peleshala. The name is derived from ‘Peol’s corner of land’. ‘Halh’ is a Saxon suffix which may refer to its original position being between two streams.
Pelsall a township in the parish of Wolverhampton, union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow, and of the county of Stafford, 3¼ miles (N.) of Walsall; containing 1100 inhabitants. Pelsall was the seat of Robert de Corbeuil, one of William the Conqueror’s barons, and his descendants; and part of the township still retains the name of The Moat. The township comprises 1194 acres, of which 215 are common or waste; and contains several extensive coal-beds of which two mines are in operation, one in the centre of the township, and the other at Pelsall-Wood, where are large iron-works with two blast-furnaces. The greater part of the population are employed as colliers or furnace-men., about thirteen families are nailers, and the rest farmers and labourers. The Wyrley and Essington canal runs through the township. Here is a living, which is a perpetual curacy; net income, £86; patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church erected in 1798, in which part of an older structure had been incorporated, was lately taken down, and a new church erected at a cost of £1600, capable of accommodating 632 persons; the sittings are chiefly free. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and a small school is endowed with two-thirds of the rent of a small piece of ground left by Mrs. Bridegmen, the remaining third being paid to the perpetual curate.
[Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1859]
Pelsall, a township-chapelry in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; on the Wyrley canal and the South Stafford railway, 3 miles N N E of Walsall. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Walsall. Acres, 1, 194. Real property, £8, 127; of which £3, 815 are in mines, and £2,000 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 1, 132; in 1861, 1,892. Houses, 376. The manor belongs to the Duke of Sutherland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good; and a tower was added to it in 1821. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed national school.
[John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870 -1872]
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