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Chebsey in 1872

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

CHEBSEY, a township and a parish in Stone district, Stafford. The township lies on the river Sow and on the Grand Junction railway, 1 mile S of Norton-Bridge station, and 2 E of Eccleshall. Real property, £7,102. Pop., 472. Houses. 94. The parish contains also the township of Cold-Norton; and its post-town is Eccleshall Acres, 4,172. Real property, £8,900. Pop., 514. Houses, 99. The manor belonged to the Hastings family.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £285. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. The church is old; and the church-yard formerly had a curious obelisk. 

COLD-NORTON, a township in Chebsey parish, Stafford; on the Manchester and Birmingham railway, 2 miles WSW of Stone. Real property, £1,798. Pop., 42. Houses, 5. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
 

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