Haughton in 1872

HAUGHTON, a parish in the district and county of Stafford; on the Shropshire Union railway, 4 miles SW by W of Stafford. It has a station on the railway, and its post-town is Stafford. Acres, 1,860. Real property, £3,493. Pop., 516. Houses, 116. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Francis Eld, Esq. Offa the Dane is said to have lived in the parish, at High Offley. There is a Danish barrow.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £403. Patron, the Rev. C.S. Royds. The church is ancient but good, with a tower; and was recently enlarged and embellished.

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