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WALTON-UPON-TRENT, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WALTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby, 4½ miles S.W. of Burton-upon-Trent, its post town, and 10 from Tamworth. It is a station on the Birmingham line of railway. The village is situated on the eastern bank of the river Trent, which here divides the county of Derby from that of Stafford. The Grand Trunk canal and the Birmingham and Derby railway pass near this village.

In 1833 an Act was obtained for building a bridge over the Trent at Barton-under-Needwood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £828. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was thoroughly restored in 1827. The interior contains the brass of a priest. The parochial charities produce about £30 per annum, of which £21 go towards a school. Walton Hall is the principal residence. The Marquis Townshend is lord of the manor."

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

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