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

WATERFALL.

Waterfall is a parish in the Moorlands, situated between three and four miles from Ilam. Its name originated in the curious phenomenon of the river Hamps, which, after having flowed about eight miles from its source, suddenly disappears among the lime-stone rocks in this parish, where it holds a subterranean course to the neighbourhood of Ilam, where it rises again and forms a confluence with the Manifold.

The village of Waterfall is an obscure and inconsiderable place, of no great antiquity, not being mentioned in any ancient record. The parish contains 92 houses, 92 families; 231 males, 224 females: total of inhabitants, 455. The principal employment of the men is in agriculture; some of them work in the copper mines at Ecton.

The Church, which is dedicated to St. James, is a small fabric: it is a curacy.