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Cauldon in 1817

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Description from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)

CAULDON (CALDON).

Caldon is a small parish, about four miles east of Ipstones, and eight miles from Leek, situated to the south of the turnpike-road leading from Leek to Ashbourne, and in a barren and dreary part of the Moorlands. This parish contains 59 houses, 59 families; 165 males, 152 females: total of inhabitants 317.

There is no manufacture carried on in this parish; but Caldon Lowe furnishes an abundant supply of lime-stone to the neighbouring parishes, and to a great extent, through the medium of the canal.

The Church, which is small, is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a chapel of ease to Church Mayfield, which is about five miles distant. The Rev. Thomas Blackey is the present minister.

The principal food of the inhabitants of this parish, and of the Moorlands in general, is oatmeal baked into thin cakes on a bakestone; but this comparatively coarse fare is certainly conducive to health, for the people who are reared on it are hardy, and long-lived.