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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"FORTON, a parish in the W. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, county Stafford, 1 mile N.E. of Newport, its post town and railway station on the Shropshire Union line, and 13 W. of Stafford. It is situated on the western border of the county, and includes the hamlets of Meertown, Sutton, and Warton. The road from Eccleshall to Newport intersects the parish. The arable land is chiefly clay, and the meadow peat.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £474. The church is a stone structure of ancient date, dedicated to All Saints. The parochial charities, including an endowment of £12 to the school, produce a little over £70 per annum.

Aqualate Mere is a handsome sheet of water, in the south-eastern part of the parish, close to which is Aqualate Hall, the seat of Sir F. F. Boughey, Bart., who is lord of the manor."

"MEER, (or Meertown), a tything in the parish of Forton, W. division of the hundred of Cuttlestone, county Stafford, 1 mile N.E. of Newport. It takes its name from Aqualate Meer, a sheet of water to the N. of Aqualate Park. The village, which consists of several houses, is built on an eminence near the border of Shropshire.

"SUTTON, a township in the parish of Forton, county Stafford, 2 miles N.E. of Newport, near the canal."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]