Stafford in 1868

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

"STAFFORD, a parish, municipal and parliamentary borough, market town, the seat of a Poor-law Union and the county town of county Stafford, is 141 miles W.N.W. from London by road, 133 miles by the North-Western railway, 29 miles N. from Birmingham, a like distance W. from Shrewsbury. It is situated on the left bank of the river Sow, a tributary of the Trent, about 6 miles from its confluence with that river. It is in the united parishes of St. Mary and St. Chad, in the S. division of Pirehill hundred. The municipal and parliamentary boroughs are co-extensive, comprising an area of 2,510 acres, with a population in 1851 of 11,829, and in 1861 of 12,532, occupying 2,241 houses. . (There is more of this description).

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Stafford is to be found on a supplementary page.

Coton Enson Hopton & Coton Township Marston Salt & Enson Township Whitgreave

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