Caverswall in 1859

CAVERSWALL (ST. PETER}, a parish, in the union of CHEADLE, N. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, and of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (E.) from Lane-End; containing, with the township of Weston-Coyney with Hulme, 1505 inhabitants. The parish comprises 5346a.2r.1p., of which nearly 3300 acres are meadow and pasture, 1384 arable, and a considerable part woods and plantations.

A castle here, originally founded by Sir William de Caverswall, in the time of Edward II., and rebuilt in that of Elizabeth or James I., was garrisoned for the parliament in 1645, and at the commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, was purchased for the English Benedictine nuns of Ghent, who had been driven from their possessions in Belgium.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7.5.3.; net income, £217; patron and impropriator, T. H. Parker, Esq. The church contains several old monuments, and one to the lady of the late Earl St. Vincent. There are a place of worship for Wesleyans, and a Roman Catholic chapel at Caverswall Castle; and a school has been established on the national plan. 

WESTON-COYNEY, with HULME, a township, in the parish of CAVERSWALL, union of CHEADLE, N. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (W.) from Cheadle; containing 938 inhabitants. 

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]