Harlaston in 1872

HARLASTON, or Harleston, a parochial chapelry in Clifton-Campville parish, Stafford; on an affluent of the river Trent, adjacent to the Birmingham and Derby railway, near the boundary with Derbyshire, 1 mile ENE of Haselour railway station, and 4 N of Tamworth. Post-town, Clifton-Campville, under Tamworth. Real property, £2,532. Pop., 239. Houses, 56.

The manor-house was ancient; but has been rebuilt. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £444. Patron, Francis Willington, Esq. The church has an old wooden belfry. 

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