Gratwich in 1817

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

GRATWICH.

Gratwich is a small parish and village, containing 18 houses, 19 families, and 110 inhabitants. It is situated south-west of Uttoxeter, and about four miles distant from that town. The village is built on a plain; and the soil of the parish, which is a gravelly loam, is fertile.

The Church is small, built of brick, with a wooden belfry; and the interior is without a gallery, or monuments. It is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a rectory in the patronage of Earl Talbot, of Ingestre. The Rev. Edward Lewis, the present incumbent, lives at Cotton.

There is one instance of longevity recorded on a tomb-stone in Gratwich church-yard: to the memory of Hannah Woolfe, of Shafferlong, who died in 1793, aged 91 years.