Newborough in 1868

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

"NEWBOROUGH, a township and chapelry in the parish of Hanbury, N. division of Offlow hundred, county Stafford, 3½ miles from Sudbury, its nearest railway station and post town, and 4 N.E. of Abbots-Bromley. The village, which is situated in a narrow vale, is wholly agricultural. The chapelry comprises the townships of Thorney-Lane and Hoarcross. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £107, in the patronage of the Vicar of Hanbury.

The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a square tower containing a clock. There are a free school for forty girls, and a partly endowed boys' school; the former is entirely supported by T. K. Hall, Esq., of Holly Bush, who provides each of the girls with new clothes at Easter, and a dinner every Sunday. Holly Bush Hall and Hoarcross Hall are the principal residences."

 

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