Places in Ellastone in 1859

ELLASTONE

CALWICK, a township, in the parish of ELLASTONE, S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S.W. by W.) from Ashbourn; containing 131 inhabitants. A hermitage was anciently established here, which was given to the priory of Kenilworth before the year 1148, by Nicholas de Greselei Fitz-Nigell, and a small convent of Black canons placed therein. This house was assigned by Henry VIII. to the monastery of Merton, in Surrey, in exchange for the manor of East Moulsey, as parcel of which it was again granted by that monarch to John Fleetwood.

PRESTWOOD, a township, in the parish of ELLASTONE, S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 7 miles (N.) from Uttoxeter; containing 68 inhabitants.

STANTON, a township, in the parish of ELLASTONE, S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (W.) from Ashbourn; containing 393 inhabitants. Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born here in 1598. 

WOOTTON, a township, in the parish of ELLASTONE, S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Ashbourn; containing 223 inhabitants. The township comprises about 1500 acres of land: the village is small, and is situated a mile and a half from the village of Ellastone, on the road from that place to Cotton, and under the limestone mountain called Weaver Hill, one of the loftiest in the neighbourhood, and abounding in a variety of minerals. Wootton Lodge is a handsome mansion, built by Inigo Jones, and occupies an elevated site on Weaver Hill: Rousseau spent about eighteen months at the Lodge. 

 

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