Alrewas, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands on the Grand Trunk Canal, near the rivers Trent and Tame, 5 miles NE of Lichfield. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R., 3/4 of a mile distant, and a post office under Barton-upon-Trent. The parish includes also the townships of Orgreave and Fradley, and the hamlet of Overley. Acreage, 6115; population, 1512. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £250. The church was founded in 820, and has been partially restored from time to time; the pinnacled western tower was restored in 1887. It has a Norman doorway, and contains an ancient font, very ancient oak carving, and some traces of mural painting of the 15th century. There are chapels for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists. Basket-making is carried on.