Meerbrook in 1859

MEERBROOK, a chapelry, in the parish and union of LEEK, N. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (N.) from 
Leek; containing 652 inhabitants.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £97; patron, Vicar of Leek. The chapel, dedicated to St. Matthew, is a small edifice, with a square tower. Some children are educated for £14 per annum, the proceeds of a bequest by John Stoddard, in 1673. In the neighbourhood are the Leek rocks, stupendous overhanging masses, two miles in length, with scattered fragments at their bases and in other parts of the valley. 

 

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