Abbots-Bromley, a large village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village, 5 1/2 miles from Rugeley station on the L.& N.W,R., and 6 S of Uttoxeter, has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rugeley. Formerly a market-town, it consists chiefly of a long street, containing some good houses and an ancient canopied market-place. The parish includes also the liberty of Bromley-Hurst and the lordship of Bagots-Bromley. Acreage, 9476; population of the civil parish, 1411; of the ecclesiastical, 1257. The manor anciently belonged to Burton Abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £220. The church is an ancient structure, in various styles; it was restored in 1855, and contains a small brass. There are chapels for Congregationalists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. Here also are two middle-class schools for girls in connection with Denstone College, and Ellesmere School for boys, under the Woodard foundation. These schools are fine buildings, and have their own chapel.