Butterton in 1859

BUTTERTON, a chapelry, in the parish of MAYFIELD. S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 7 miles (E.) from 
Leek; containing 388 inhabitants. The river Manifold runs through the district, which comprises by computation 1300 acres; limestone is quarried, and a small quantity of gritstone; and a lead-mine is in operation. Portions of copper-ore, stalactites, fossil shells, and an ore called by the miners "brown end", convertible into zinc, are found; and there is a mineral spring strongly impregnated with sulphur.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £90; patron, Vicar of Mayfield; impropriator, Duke of Devonshire. The chapel, which is a neat stone edifice with a tower, was rebuilt in 1780. William Mellor, in 1754, bequeathed property now producing £16 a year, for which children are taught to read. 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]