Cotton in 1872

COTTON, or Lower and Upper Cotton, a township-chapelry in Alton parish, Stafford; near the Uttoxeter canal and the North Stafford railway, 2 miles ENE of Oakamoor railway station, and 5 NE of Cheadle. Post-town, Oakamoor, under Stafford. Real property, £1,954. Pop., 446. Houses, 88. The property is divided among a few. 

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £44. Patron, the Vicar of Alton. The church was built in 1795; and there is a Roman Catholic chapeL 

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