NORTON IN HALES: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

"NORTON IN HALES, a parish in the Drayton division of the hundred of BRADFORD (North), county of SALOP, 3 miles (N. E. by N.) from Drayton in Hales, containing 241 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of5 Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5.9.4. The King presented for that turn in 1786. The church is dedicated to St. Chad. The learned Dr. Lightfoot, Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge, was rector of this parish."

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831](unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]