Tutbury in 1868

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

"TUTBURY, a parish and post town in the N. division of Offlow hundred, county Stafford, 4½ miles N.W. of Burton-upon-Trent, and 8 S.E. of Uttoxeter. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. It is a decayed market town situated in Needwood Forest, on the river Dove. In the Saxon times it was a Mercian fort, and after the Norman conquest was given by William the Conqueror to Henry de Ferrars, who built the priory and castle, and in whose family it remained till Robert de Ferrars, joining Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, in his rebellion against Henry III., forfeited it in 1250, when the king bestowed it on his second son Edmund, Earl of Lancaster.  (There is more of this description).

 

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