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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reproduce the illustrations. The map on the front cover is a detail from A Mop of the County of Stafford by William Yates, 1'175. The engraving of the Hyde ironworks about 1870, on the frontispiece, is from Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain by J. Griffiths, 1873. The illustration below it of the Stewponey inn in 1828, and the one of Kinver High Street in 1836, on the title page, are from drawings by R. Noyes in Staffordshire Views at the William Salt Library, Stafford. The illustration of Enville Church from the south-east in 1837, opposite page 91, is from a drawing by T.P. Wood in Staffordshire Views at the William Salt Library, Stafford. The one below it of Mere Farm from the south-west in 1857, with clementing in progress, is from an engraving in Illustrated London News, 26 December 1857, based on a drawing by ‘Cuthbert Bede’ (the Reverend E. Bradley). The maps of Enville 1982 on page 92 and Kfrrver 1982 on page 120 were drawn by Mary Edwards and Joan Hill from drafts prepared by M.W. Greenslade and NJ. Tringham. The plans of Enville Hall on pages 98, 100 and 101, and of Home Farm, Enville on page 102, were drawn by A.P. Baggs. The architectural descriptions were prepared in collaboration with A.P. Baggs. The index consists of the entries under Enville and Ktnver in the index to the original edition of volume XX. It omits all the items indexed under any other heading and the references under Envfite and Ktrtver to pages not included in this offprint. Printed by Staffordshire County Council Central Print ISBN 0 903363 46 1 Staffordshire Libraries, Arts and Archives Friars Terrace, Stafford, ST]? 4AY '""—"""'i_""'“' ' " ' _ —'I1 I-| | 1'I| Z SEISDON HUNDRED envttt-e ENVILLE T1-is ancient parish of Enville, 4,986 a. (2,o18 the area may have been originally part of the ha.) in area,“ lies on the county boundary with extensive woodland in Morfe manor recorded in Shropshire. it is rural in character with the toB6."“ Part of Philley brook west of Mere mill grounds of Enville Hall a major feature. The divided Morfe and Lutley manors.“ spellings Enfeld, Enveld, and other variants, in In to86 the recorded population of Enville use until the late 18th century,“ derive from Old was 7. There was no recorded population at English words meaning ‘smooth field',““ presum- Morfe, which was then waste.” In :32‘; Enville ably a reference to the Flat ground in the east of had 22 people assessed for tax, Morfe t7, and the parish. The spelling Envill was used by Lutley t.1.."' In the mid t52os 57 people in the Christopher Sexton (r577) and some later map- parish were assessed for tax, and 36 names mal-ters. From the late 18th century the spelling appeared on the muster roll of 1539." In 1563 Enville was adopted.“ there were 41 households.“ The poll-tax assess- A fault runs diagonally through the parish from ment of 1641 listed 219 people.“ In 1666 ninety- no rth-east to south-west. East ofthe fault the land five people were assessed for hearth tax, and a is Flat, lying between 279 ft. (85 m.) and 2:6 ft. further 29 were too poor to pay." The Compton (66 m.). To the west it is undulating, its height Census of r676 returned 5oo parishioners.“ The falling from 361 ft. (t to m.) in the north-eastern population was 799 in t8ot and 842 in 1821. It corner to 321 ft. (o8 rn.) at Lutley in the north and had fallen to 766 by 183 1 but risen to 81.1. by 1841. to 288 ft. (88 m.) at Enville village in the centre of After reaching 85o in t86t, it declined steadily to the parish. It rises to 4.84. ft. (147 m.) at Coxgreen 645 in toot. A rise to 712 in tort gave way to in the west and to 670 ft. (2o4. m.) at No Man's another steady decline, the population falling to Green in the south-west. Much of the parish 657 in roar, 642 in togt, 605 in 1951, 515 in boundary with Bobbington is marked by tumps toot, and 468 in 1971.“ or mounds of earth which existed by the earlier Enville village lies on the Stourbridge- totb century.“ An arm of Philley brook forms Bridgnorth road at the foot of a steep ridge. The part of the north-west boundary. In the east the church stands on top of the ridge. In i688 the boundary follows Spittle brook and the line of a village comprised four houses on the main road, dried-up tributary. Mill brook forms part of the including the Crown inn which existed by I642 south-east boundary. Much of the eastern and possibly by 1582, and a further four houses boundary follows Chester Road. The underlying around a green called Bar green on a road running rock is sandstone and breccia. East ofthe fault the south to Enville Hall from the rnain road. An- soil is clay; to the west it is generally sandy.“ other house stood at the foot of the ridge in The parish lay in Kinver forest,“ and the Blundies Lane.“ By the later 18th century Bar pattern of settlement, a small village and numer- green had been taken into the hall grounds and ous scattered farmhouses, is characteristic of a most ofthe houses in the village lay on either side forest area.