Stowe-by-Chartley in 1868

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

"STOWE, a parish in the S. division of Pirehill hundred, county Stafford, 8 miles N.W. of Rugeley, its post town, 7 E. of Stafford, and 1½ mile from the Weston railway station on the North Staffordshire line. The parish includes the hamlets of Amerton, Drointon, Grindley, Haywood, Hixon, and Chartley Holme. Chartley Moss, comprehending about 100 acres, is prolific in cranberries.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £85. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, contains a monument with effigies of Walter Devereux, first Viscount Hereford, and his two wives. The parochial charities produce about £26 per annum. There is an endowed school. The Independents have a chapel. Earl Ferrers is lord of the manor."

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Stowe-by-Chartley is to be found on a supplementary page.

Amerton Drointon Great & Little Haywood Grindley Hixon Mount Priory

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