Places in Alton in 1872

ALTON

DENSTON, a township-chapelry in Alton parish, Stafford; near Rocester-Junction railway station, 5 miles N of Uttoxeter. Post town, Rocester, under Ashborne. Real property, £1,489. Pop., 241. Houses, 53. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, Sir T.P. Heywood, Bart. A great middle-class school or college was founded in 1869.

FARLEY, a township in Alton parish, Stafford; near the Uttoxeter canal, 4 miles ENE of Cheadle. Real property, £3,029. Pop., 390. Houses, 82. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

 

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]