Cotton in 1868

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

"COTTON, a chapelry in the parish of Alton, in the S. division of Totmonslow, in the county of Stafford, 4 miles N.E. of Cheadle, its post town, and 3 N. of the Alton station of the North Staffordshire line. It includes the townships of Upper and Lower Cotton. The inhabitants are engaged in agriculture and in the lime-quarries.

The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Alton, in the diocese of Lichfield, value £44, in the patronage of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was erected in 1795 by Thomas Gilbert, Esq. The Roman Catholics have a chapel, dedicated to St. Wilfred."

 

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