Edingale is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Lichfield District Lichfield District () is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Staffordshire, England. The district is named after its largest settlement, the city of Lichfield, which is where the district council is based. The district also c ...

, Staffordshire, England.OS Explorer Map 245: The National Forest :(1:25 000) :Map Details
retrieved 11 April 2013 It lies on the

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, around north of Tamworth. Historically, the village is shared with

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. In 2001 the parish had a population of 598, increasing to 632 at the 2011 census.

History

Edingale was mentioned in the

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as part of Derbyshire and belonging to

Henry de Ferrers Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Normans, Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England. Origins He was the eldest son of Vauquelin de Ferrers and i ...

and being worth two shillings. The name of the village comes from

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, with the meaning ''nook of land of Edins'' (or ''Eadwines'') people''. Until the late 19th century the village of Edingale was divided between the

chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status A chapelry had a similar status to a Township (England), township, but was so named as it had a chapel of ease ...

of Edingale, within

Alrewas Alrewas ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Lichfield District of Staffordshire, England. Geography The village is beside the River Trent and about northeast of Lichfield. It is located southwest of Burton-on-Trent. The parish is b ...

parish in Staffordshire, and the parish of Croxall, in Derbyshire. In 1831 the population of the Staffordshire village was 177. By 1851 it had risen to 197, on about 850 acres of land, when the lord of the manor was the

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, though the land belonged to a number of other persons. Formerly in

Tamworth Rural District Tamworth was a rural district in the English Midlands from 1894 until its abolition in 1965. The architect Alfred Edward Cheatle, Alfred Cheatle was for many years chairman. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from Tamworth, Sta ...

, the parish became part of

Lichfield Rural District Lichfield was a rural district in the county of Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was enlarged in 1934 by gaining part of Staffordshire that had been administered since 1894 as part of Tamworth Rural District, which was otherwise in ...

during the boundary changes of 1934. The civil parish of

Croxall Croxall is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Edingale, in the Lichfield district of Staffordshire, England. The settlement today is mainly the Church of England parish church of St John and Croxall Hall. On 30 September 18 ...

was incorporated into Edingale at the same time.

Landmarks

A number of houses in the village are listed

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, as is the Church of the Holy Trinity and associated buildings. The village of

also has a number of historic buildings. Chetwynd Bridge, an early cast-iron arch bridge, crosses the River Tame from neighbouring

on the western edge of the parish.

Sport

The village has 1 football team Edingale Swifts. they will play the 2016–2017 season in Division 3 of the ''Tamworth and District Sunday Football League''. They won the Division Three league and cup double in 2015–16 season with an unbeaten league record. The Black Horse Edingale were the villages other football team but they folded in December 2013.

References

External links

Staffordshire Past Track: Old images of EdingaleA Lost Way of Life: Farms in the Parish, edingalevillage.co.uk
{{authority control Villages in Staffordshire Civil parishes in Staffordshire

History

Landmarks

Sport

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