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Chorlton in 1817

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

CHAPEL CHORLTON.

Chorlton, is a village and chapelry, about five miles north by west from Eccleshall, and near the eastern branch of the river Sow. 
The village, in which the chapel stands, is called Chapel Chorlton. The Chapel is a small structure dedicated to St. Lawrence, and is a chapel of ease to Eccleshall. The Ret. F. Jenkinson is the present minister. 

At or near to Chorlton is a quarry of good building stone of a white colour, and it was noticed by Dr. Plot (ch. iv. sec. 31) as being in his time " the whitest and freest from stains" in the county, " and of a fine grain enough." 

Hill Chorlton, or Chorlton~on-the-Hill, is an hamlet a small distance from Chapel Chorlton, and in the same chapelry.