Butterton in 1868

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

"BUTTERTON, a chapelry and village in the parish of Mayfield, hundred of Totmonslow, in the county of Stafford, 8 miles to the E. of Leek, its post town, and 11 N.W. of Mayfield. The village is situated on a steep declivity, commanding extensive prospects.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £95, in the gift of the vicar. The church, a small stone structure with a tower, is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. There is a Wesleyan chapel and a small free school, established and endowed in 1754 by William Mellor, the annual income of which is about £17. The other charitable endowments of the parish amount to £20 per annum.

Butterton is in the honour of Tutbury, in the duchy of Lancaster, and by a recent Act is incorporated with the township of Alstonfield, and the parishes of Grindon and Wetton, for the maintenance of its poor.

 

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