Creswell in 1859

CRESSWELL, an extra-parochial liberty, in the S. division of the hundred of PIREHILL, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S.W. by S.) from Cheadle; containing 16 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, a sinecure, in the joint patronage of the Rev. Edward Whitby, the incumbent, and George Whitby, Esq.; net income, £20. There is no church. A place of worship has been built for Roman Catholics. 

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