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Clifton Campville in 1872

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

CLIFTON-CAMPVILLE, a township in the district of Tamworth, Stafford; and a parish in the same district, and partly in Derby. The township lies on the river Meese, 3 miles E of Haselour and Elford railway station, and 5 NE of Tamworth; and has a post-office under Tamworth. Pop., 513. Houses, 110. The parish contains also the township of Harlaston and the hamlet of Haunton in Stafford, and the township of Chilcote in Derby. Acres, 6,004. Real property, £6,543. Pop., 881. Houses, 193.

The manor was held, before the Conquest, by Earl Algar; went to the Crown; and passed to the Camvilles, the Vernons, the Staffords, the Stanleys, the Hereys, the Heveninghams, the Coventrys, the Pyes, the Severnes, the Wakinses, and again the Pyes. Clifton-Campville Hall is the seat of H.J. Pye, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Chilcote, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £950. Patron, H.J. Pye, Esq. The church has a very fine spire; and contains a screen and monuments of the Vernons and others. 

HAUNTON, a township in Clifton-Campville parish, Stafford; on the river Mease, 4 miles NNE of Tamworth. Pop., 185. Houses, 37. 

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