Places in Clifton Campville in 1859

CLIFTON CAMPVILLE

HARLESTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Clifton-Campville, union of Tamworth, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (N.) from Tamworth; containing 221 inhabitants. It comprises about 1400 acres of land: the village is pleasantly seated on an eminence, on the south bank of the Mease, two miles and a half west of the village of Clifton-Campville. The chapel is an ancient 
building with a low wooden spire; the nave was rebuilt about 20 years ago. The tithes have been commuted for £370.

HAUNTON, a township, in the parish of Clifton-Campville, union of Tamworth, N. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (N.N.E.) from Tamworth; containing 197 inhabitants. It lies on the road from Harlaston to Clifton-Campville, from which latter village it is distant westward about a mile. The river Mease flows on the north. 

 

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