Alton in 1868

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

"ALTON, (or Alveton), a parish in the southern division of the hundred of Totmonslow, in the county of Stafford, 4 miles to the E. of Cheadle. It is a station on the Churnet Valley branch of the North Staffordshire railway, 4 miles to the E. of Cheadle, and 24 miles from Macclesfield. " (There is more of this description).

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

• Cotton
• Denstone
• Farley

 

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