Dunston in 1859

DUNSTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Penkridge, E. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, S. division of the county of Stafford, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Penkridge; containing 250 inhabitants. It is intersected by the Liverpool and Birmingham railway, and comprises by admeasurement 1357 acres, 
three-fourths of which are arable.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £67; patron and impropriator, Lord Hatherton, whose tithes have been commuted for £253; there is a glebe of 1 acre. The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, is supposed to have been built about a century ago.

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]