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

DUNSTON.

Dunston is a small township between Penkridge and Stafford, containing 44 houses and 214 inhabitants, mostly employed in agriculture.

The soil is an excellent marly loam, with good meadows on the banks of the Penk. Dr. Plot, always on the stretch for wonders, mentions, that at Dunston, west of the chapel, an echo gave a return of seven syllables.

The Chapel is a small building of brick, on the west side of the turnpike-road leading to Stafford. It is dedicated to St. Leonard, and is a chapel of ease to Penkridge, in the patronage of the Littleton family, of Teddesley.