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CROXALL, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CROXALL, (or Croxhall) a parish partly in the hundred of Repton, in the county of Derby, and partly in the hundred of Offlow, in the county of Stafford, 5½ miles N. of Tamworth, and 8½ S.E. of Burton-on-Trent. It is situated on the river Meese, and is a station on the West branch of the Midland railway. The parish contains the townships of Oakley and Catton. The railway viaduct here crosses the rivers Tame and Trent.

The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £489, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to St. Philip, or according to others to St. John the Baptist, is an old stone structure, and contains several monuments. The tithes were commuted in 1791. There is a National school. T. Prinseps, Esq., is lord of the manor, and resides at Croxall Hall."

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

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