Meerbrook in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"MEERBROOK, a chapelry in the parish of Leek, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, county Stafford, 3 miles N. of Leek, and 24 N. by E. of Stafford. It is situated near the river Churnet and Caldon canal. The valley is strewn with fragments of the Leek rocks, stupendous over-hanging masses, about 2 miles in length.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £100, in the patronage of the Vicar of Leek. The church, dedicated to St. Matthew, is a small edifice with a square tower. There is a school, endowed by John Stoddard in 1673 with property producing £15 per annum."

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]