Sandon in 1872

SANDON, a village and a parish in Stone district, Stafford. The village stands near the river Trent, the Grand Trunk canal, and the North Staffordshire railway, 5 miles S E of Stone; has a station on the railway, a post-office under Stone, and a fair on 14 Nov.: and gives the title of Viscount to the Earl of Harrowby. The parish contains also Smallrice hamlet, and part of Dayhills; and comprises 3,640 acres. Real property, £6,502. Pop., 590. Houses, 108. The manor belonged to Earl Algar; passed to Hugh Lupus, the De Malbancs, the Vernons, the Staffords, the Erdeswicks, and others; and, with Sandon Hall, belongs now to the Earl of Harrowby.

An obelisk, 75 feet high, erected in 1806, to the memory of W. Pitt, stands on an eminence in Sandon Hall park; and a Gothic shrine, containing two tablets to S. Percival, is in a grove on the E side of the park. An action, between the parliamentarians and the royalists, was fought at Hopton-Heath in 1642. Good building-stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £355. Patron, the Earl of Harrowby. The church is ancient. Charities, £7. Erdeswick, the antiquary, was a native.

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following places in Sandon is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Dayhills
• Smallrice

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]