PENKRIDGE  , a

town in the western parliamentary division of Staffordshire, England; 134 M . N.W. from London by the London & North-Western railway, on the small river Penk . Pop . (1901), 2347 . Trade is chiefly agricultural and there are stone-quarries in the vicinity . The church of St Michael and All Angels, formerly collegiate and dedicated to St Mary, is a fine building principally Perpendicular, but with earlier portions . The Roman Watling Street passes from east to west 3 M. south of Penkridge . In the neighbourhood is Pillaton Hall, retaining a picturesque chapel of the 15th century .