Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Monetvile 1086 DB

• villa castri Stafford 1293 Ass 1319 YearBk

• Castel 1332 FF 1421 LansdCh 1422 Banco

• le Castelparke 1439 MinAcct

• Castel juxta Stafford 1424 FF 1550 Pat

• Castrum cum marisco 1327 SR

• le marshe juxta Stafford 1462 Ct

• Castell Parysshe 1552 Pat 1553 FF 1564 ib

• Chastel chuerche 1562–6 Harl

• Castle Church 1775 Yates 1842 TA

Etymology

Castle Church seems to have become a separate parish from Stafford about 1546, v. VCH v, 82 and has remained so since that time with several boundary changes which are thoroughly treated in VCH v, 82. The ancient parish consisted of the vills of the Castle, that is the area surrounding the castle of the Stafford Barony and including Forebridge, Rowley, Burton, Rickerscote, Silkmore, Hyde Lea and Rising Brook, and this is roughly what is here treated as part of the parish. Monetvile is strictly speaking unidentified, but is thought to represent the later manor of 'Castel' or 'Castle' where the Castle of the Stafford barons stood, v. SHC viii (2) 14–20.