Places in Stafford St Chad in 1872

STAFFORD ST CHAD

HOPTON AND COTON, a township in St. Mary and St. Chad parish, Staffordshire: 2 miles NE of Stafford. Real property, £5,086. Pop. in 1851, 468, in 1861, 1,174. Houses, 93. The increase of pop. arose from the enlargement of the county lunatic asylum, and the erection of the Coton Hill lunatic asylum; and, at the census of 1861, these institutions had respectively 540 and 162 inmates. Hopton Heath here, now enclosed, was the scene of a severe action, in 1643, between the royalists, under the Earl of Northampton, and the parliamentarians, under Sir John Gell and Sir William Brereton. 

WHITGREAVE, a township-chapelry in St. Mary and St. Chad parish, Staffordshire; 2 miles SE of Norton-Bridge railway station, and 5 NNW of Stafford. Post town, Stafford. Real property, £4,043. Pop., 182. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Marston. The church is good. 
 

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