Ranton in 1859

RONTON (ALL SAINTS), a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of PIREHILL, union and N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Eccleshall; containing 292 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage; net income, £93; patron, Earl of Lichfield, who, with Francis Eld, Esq., is impropriator. 

RONTON-ABBEY, an extra-parochial liberty, in the S. division of the hundred of PIREHILL, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S. by E.) from 
Eccleshall; containing 28 inhabitants. A priory of Black canons, subordinate to the abbey of Haughmond, in Shropshire, was founded in the reign of Henry II., 
by Robert Fitz-Noel, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and at the Dissolution had a revenue valued at £102.11.1. per annum. The tower and a small portion of the cloisters still remain, with the moat that inclosed the grounds, comprising 30 acres; and in the immediate vicinity is a neat shooting-box belonging to the Earl of Lichfield.

 

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