Kingstone in 1872

KINGSTON, a village and a parish in Uttoxeter district, Stafford. The village stands 2 miles S of Bramshall railway station, and 3 SW by S of Uttoxeter. The parish extends to the river Blithe, and includes the hamlet of Blithe-Bridge. Post-town, Uttoxeter, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Acres, 2,009. Real property, £2,673. Pop., 312. Houses, 65.

The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £68. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church was rebuilt in 1861, and is in the early English style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. 

BLITHE-BRIDGE, a hamlet in Kingston parish, Stafford; on the river Blithe, 4 miles SW of Uttoxeter.

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]