Haughton in 1817

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

HAUGHTON.

Haughton is a parish, with a pleasant rural village of the same name, situateed about four miles WSW of Stafford, on the road to Newport, in Shropshire. The parish consists of this village and a few farm-houses.

According to the population returns in 1811, it contained 93 houses, and 93 families, consisting of 223 males, and 232 females: total 455 persons. The principal employment of the inhabitants is agriculture, though tanning and some handicraft arts are carried on in the village.

The Church is a neat edifice of brick, with an ancient stone tower. It is a rectory in the deanery of Newcastle and Stone, and Archdeaconry of Stafford.