Staffordshire

CATTO~ is a township and small scattered village on Norman structure. There are 120 citting1r. .Catt&11 the Trent, 6! miles south from Burton-npon-Trent, and Hall is a noble mansion of brick, pleasantlt •ituated 1j: aooth-west from Croxall station, in the Burton-npon- in a fine park of 92 acres, and ia t'h& seat of Henry Trent union, parish <>f Croxall and county of Derby. Anson-Horton esq. J.P. lord of the manor and principal Oatton township had a chapel f)f its own, served by the landowner. The area it 1,o8I acres of land snd '!'8 'of vicars of Oroxall from the time most probably of the water· rateable value, £1,466; the population bt 1~1 Norman Conquest, till about 1750 a.d. when it was was g6. destroyed; portions of the fabric, a structure of Later _:) Perpendi~ular date, are still in existence in the Hall Letters through Burton-upon-Trent arrive at 8 a.m. 'llje grounds, as well as a font, part of a window &c. The nearest money order office is at Walton-on-Trent I; chapel, which stands near the Hall, was built as a chapel telegmph office at Walton. Letter bag called for J' of ease to the parish church, and replaces an ancient 5.30 CROX AI.L. tcliffe Thomas, farmer, Broadfields Novell William James, head gat:d8llet (Marked thus t postal address, Edin- Hidderley Robert, farmer to Hy.Anson-Horton esq. OattoD. hall gale, Tamworth.) tHooley Alfred, farmer Stevenson .Ann (Mrs.), farmer,~. Levett-Prinsep Thos. J.P.Croxall hall tLindop William, farmer kill pitts Norton Rev. Wm. Thomas, Vicarage Sommerfield J oseph, farmer CATTON. COMMERCIAL. OAKI.EY. Anson-Horton Henry J..P. Catton hall Beech Thomas J ames, farmer COMMERCIAL. Brough Wilfred, farmer, The Mill COHM.ERCIAL, Payne Charles, farmer Cartwright David, joiner Norbury James, farmer, Mansditch Wint Joseph, farmer, Broadfieldt CROXDEN is a parish and pleasa;nt village, in a narrow mentary on the Bible, and Richard de Schepeshead, ~3t'b but fertile valley, watered by a small rivulet, a tributary to abbot, compiled a curious diary now in the British the river Dove, 2i miles west from RUttoxeter, in the Leek interred here, his body in Worcester Cathedral, and hiJ division of the county, South Totmonslow hundred, Ut- bowels at Oroxton in Leicestershire: a crucifix, found toxeter onion and petty sessional division, Cheadle county among the ruins, has been repaired by Mr. Carrington: court district, rural deanery of Uttoxeter, archdeaoonry a carved oak panel has also been found, and there is of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. .A detached an ancient effigy of a knight cross-legged, possibly repre· portion of this parish, amounting to about 172 acres, was senting one of the De Verdons, Charities :-The poor have added to Oalton in 1886. The church of St. Giles, rebuilt [I yearly arising from land at Calton green left by the in 1885 near the site of the earlier church, at a cost of Rev. John .Ashton, a former vicar, Oct. gth, 1722; the £g,ooo, entirely defrayed by Thomas, 6th Earl of interest on £20 left by the Rev. William Higton, many Macclesfield, is a plain edifice of red stone in the early yeara vicar here, and on £19 1911• left by Mrs • .Higton. to be Decorated style, consisting of chancfll, nave, i!onth given in bread yearly on Christmas day, as well as the vestry, south porch and a western turret containing interest on £so left;. in 1886 by the late Rev. Edward • one bell; there is a handsome reredos and an oak Whieldon M.A. to be distributed in coal on St. Thomu'a lectern, the gift in 1890 of the parishioners, in memory day. The Earl of Macclesfield is lord of the manor and of the :Sev. Edward Whieldon M. A. vicar 1863-86: new sole landowner. The soil is clay; aubsoil, rock and clay. lamps were presented in 1891 by Mr. Thomas Wood: The land is chiefly in pasture for dairy produce. The area and in 1885 a stained window was inserted on the south is 2,440 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, side by the Carrington family: the church will sPat So l2,567; the population. in 1911 was I77· persons. The register dates from the year 1648. The Sexton, Edwin John Walters. living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £93, including Great Gate (or Greet Yate) is a hamlet half a mile north- IS acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Macclesfield, west from the church at Croxden, and consist& of a few and held sine~ 1888 by the R':lv. Edward Philips M.A. of farms, some cottages and a blacksDiith's shop. St. John's C<>llege, Oxford, who resides at Hollington. Here are the venerable and extensive ruins of the Cluniac Wottons, on the Rocester road, I mile aonth-east from Abbey of St. Mary, founded by Bertram de Verdon in Croxden, comprise& two farm houses and a labourer'• 1088: it was translated from Chotes, or Chotene, in 1176, cottage. Ill and colonised from L'Aulnay : at its dissolution there were I5 monks: the remains~ which date from the I 3th century, Letters for Croxden & Wottons, through Stoke, arrift include the west fronl, now about 40 feet in height, with about 7·3° a.m. & 6 p.m. & dispatched about the same time if the remains of a magnificent Gothic arch and th~ 'Walls of the south aisle and south transept: on the eas~ side of the Letters received through Stoke via Tean for Great Gate garth are the. cloister aumbry, the sacristy, portions of arrive at about 9.30 a.m. Alton is the nearest money . order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant the chapter house, the slype or passage to t b e mfirmary, Letter Box, Great Gate, cleared at . p.m. week day& the common house and gong ~ on the north-east a portion 4 50 of the abbot's lodge, on the south the refectory, and only "Billesden," the guest house of the 14th century, west ot Public Elementary School, Great Gate (mixed). buiU, the garth ~ the infirmary, dating from 1268-74, formed a with residence for mistress attached, in 1853 t en- detached building on the sooth·east: the church measured larged in 1894• for 77 children; average attendap.cef 200 ft. by 57 ft.: Thomas, the first abbott wrote a eQm- so; Miss Emma G. Eastwood, mistress CROXDEN. Eaton Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer,Brown bnk Webberley Geo. farmer, Winnoth dale Green Joseph, farmer, Common Whieldon Charles, farmer (Marked thus * receive their letter!' Green William, farmer, Light oaks *Wood Thos. farmer, Croxden abbej through Rocester.) . *Hall John William, farmer,Pointhorne Yendley William, farmer, Brook Deacon Rev. Ernest B.A. (curate m Mace Isaac (Mrs.), frmr. Winnoth dale charge), Croxden vicarage Murley Edward, cowkeeper, Muddale GREAT GATE. Prince Annie (Mrs.), farmer A.rnold Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. Riley Elisha, farmer, Common Arnold Thomas, jun, farmer *Beech Albert, farmer, Wottons Shuffiebotham John, fa.rmer,Common Arnold William, farmer J *Bourne John Fowler, farmer Smith .Alec, farmer, Winnoth dale Bottomer William, farmer *Croxden Dairy Association (Jn.Gould, Swetna~ .lames, farmer, Common Gent Frances (Mrs.),farmer,Wood frA manager), dairymen & cheese mfrs Swetnam Jane (Mrs.), Green Man Gent Francis, farmer Deakin Thomas, farmer P .H. Brown bank Oaks John, farmer Durose Charles, farmer,Winnoth dale Talbot 'William, farmer Walters Brothers, blachmiths CROXTON is a large township, which gives its name to ' which derived its name from the Bishop's Woods, otlher· one of the parishes formed under Lord Blandford's .Ac~ wise known as "Blore Park," covering about 1,700 acres (1856), 4 miles north-west from Eccleshall and 4 south- of land and anciently constituting part of the forest of west from Standon Bridge station on the Stafford and Blore. Croxton, with the ha.mlets of Broughton, Crewe section of the London and North Western railway; Gerard's Bromley, Podmore, Charnes and Chatcull~ it is in the North Western division of the county, petty were separated from Eccleshall and made into a sessional division of Eccleshall, Stone onion and county separate ecclesiastical parish, January 6, 1857· lft court district, rural deanery of Eccleshall, archdeaconry 1907 Broughton, with Gerard's Bromley and Podmore of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. The parish were formed into a parish and will be found under ~he comprehends part of what was formerly called the letter B. in thie volume. The eprin.g of a tributary of Woodland Quarter of the lal'g'e parish of Eccleshall, the rinr Tern, which runs west to the Severn, ancl the