Barlaston in 1868

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

"BARLASTON, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of Pirehill, in the county of Stafford, 3 miles to the N. of Stone, its post town. It is a station on the Macclesfield and Colwich section of the North Staffordshire railway. The Grand Trunk canal also passes through the parish. The village is seated on elevated ground, overlooking a wide extent of rich and beautiful scenery.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £150, in the gift of the Duke of Sutherland. The church, a modern edifice with an ancient tower, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There are charitable endowments amounting to £24, half of which sum is the revenue of a free school. Barlaston Hall is a very ancient seat; it belonged once to the Bagnalls, and is now the residence of the Adderleys."

 

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