Blurton in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"BLURTON, a joint chapelry with Lightwood Forest, in the parish of Trentham, and hundred of Pirehill, in the county of Stafford, 4 miles to the S.E. of Newcastle-under-Lyne. Stoke-upon-Trent is its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value, with the curacy of Normacot united with it, of £189, in the patronage of the Duke of Sutherland."

"LIGHTWOOD FOREST, a chapelry in the parish of Trentham, county Stafford, 2 miles from Lane End, and 6 N.W. of Stone. It is joined with Blurton. The village is situated near the river Trent and Grand Trunk canal."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]