Marchington in 1868

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

"MARCHINGTON, a township and chapelry in the parish of Hanbury, N. division of the hundred of Offlow, county Stafford, 3½ miles S.E. of Uttoxeter, its post town. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. The village is situated on the river Dove, and is wholly agricultural. The land is chiefly in pasture. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £90. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a brick structure, with a low square tower containing four bells. The interior of the church contains a monument to Sir Walter Vernon and wife. The parochial charities produce about £45 per annum. There is an endowed National school for both sexes, also a place of worship for the Primitive Methodists. Courts leet and baron are held by James Cudden, Esq., of Norwich, who is lord of the manor."

"MARCHINGTON-WOODLANDS, a township in the parish of Hanbury, N. division of the hundred of Offlow, county Stafford, 2 miles S.W. of Marchington, and 3 S.E. of Uttoxeter. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfleld, value £60. The township includes the manors of Houndhill and Smallwood."

 

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