Gayton in 1868

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

"GAYTON, a parish in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, county Stafford, 5 miles N.E. of Stafford, its post town, and 7 N.W. of Abbots Bromley. It is situated near the river Trent. The Weston station on the North Staffordshire railway is about 1 mile S.W. of the village. The hamlet of Hartley Green is included in the parish.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £120. The church is a building of the last century, erected on the site of a more ancient one, and with a portion of the old materials. It is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and contains some monuments of the Ferrars family. The parochial charities produce about £5 per annum. Earl Ferrars is lord of the manor."

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