Cotton in 1859

COTTON, a chapelry, in the parish of ALVETON, union of CHEADLE, S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 5 
miles (N. E.) from Cheadle; containing 519 inhabitants. It abounds with excellent limestone, of which extensive quarries are worked by the Trent and Mersey Canal Company.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £44; patron, Thomas Gilbert, Esq.; impropriator, John Bill, Esq. The chapel was built in 1795, at 
the expense of the late Thomas Gilbert, Esq., who endowed it, and left the payment of the repairs a perpetual charge upon his property. 
 

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