Offlow

Offlow
Former subdivision of England

Offlow Hundred (red) shown in Staffordshire
History
 • OriginAnglo-Saxon period
 • Created10th century
 • Abolished1894 (obsolete)
 • Succeeded byvarious
Statusobsolete area
GovernmentHundred
Subdivisions
 • TypeParishes (see text)
 • UnitsParishes

Offlow is a hundred in the county of Staffordshire, England, located in the south-east of that county. It is named after a tumulus or mound in the parish of Swinfen and Packington, 2+12 miles south of Lichfield.[1] The hundred is recorded in the Domesday Book under the name "Offelav".[1]

  1. ^ a b The English Hundred Names, by Olof Anderson, Lund (Sweden), 1934. Page 146