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Barton-under-Needwood in 1872

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John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales - 1870-2

 

BARTON-UNDER-NEEDWOOD, a village and a chapelry in Burton-upon-Trent district, Stafford. The village stands near Icknield-street, the Grand Trunk 
canal, the river Trent, and the Birmingham and Derby railway, 1 mile W of Barton and Walton station, and 5 SW of Burton-upon-Trent.

It has a post-office under Barton-Upon-Trent; is in the honour of Tutbury, and a seat of courts; and has fairs on 3 May and 28 Nov. Several fine villas are in the neighbourhood. The chapelry includes the village, and is in the parish of Tatenhall. Acres, 3,520. Real property, £12,051. Pop., 1,589. Houses, 359. The property is much subdivided. 

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £135. Patron, the Dean of Lichfield. The church is later English; and was built, in the time of Henry VIII., by Dr. John Taylor, a native of the village. There are chapels for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists. Two endowed schools have £60, and other charities £39.

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