Draycott-in-the-Moors in 1868

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

"DRAYCOTT-IN-THE-MOORS, a parish in the S. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, in the county of Stafford, 2 miles S.W. of Cheadle, its post town, and half a mile N. of Cresswell station. It is situated on the river Blyth, and contains the hamlets of Cresswell and Totmonslow, which last was once a place of importance, and gives name to the hundred.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £452, in the patronage of Sir E. Vavasour, Bart., who is lord of the manor. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, is an ancient structure, with turret and five bells, and contains monuments and altar-tombs to the Draycot family. There is a pyramidal stone in the churchyard, supposed to mark the grave of a Danish hero. The charities amount to £4 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes."

"CRESWELL, a village in the parish of Draycott-in-the-Moors, in the county of Stafford, 2½ miles S.W. of Cheadle. It is situated on the North Stafford railway."

"TOTMONSLOW, a village in the parish of Draycott-in-the-Moors, S. division of Totmonslow hundred, county Stafford."

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