Horton in 1872

HORTON, a township and a parish in Leek district, Stafford. The township bears the name of Horton and Horton-Hay; lies near the North Staffordshire railway and the Caldon canal reservoir, 3 miles NW of Leek; and has a station, jointly with Rudyard, on the railway. Real property, £3,215. Pop., 456. Houses, 85.

The parish includes also the township of Blackwood and Crowborough; and its post-town is Leek, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Acres, 4,570. Real property, £6,211; of which £199 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 967; in 1861, 1,046. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to J. C. Antrobus, Esq. Horton Hall and Cliff Park Hall are chief residences. The Caldon canal reservoir lies near the latter, and is 2 miles long.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £180. Patron, J. C. Antrobus, Esq. The church has a tower, and contains monuments of the Cromptons, the Fowlers, and the Wedgwoods. The churchyard contains the tomb-stone of a woman who died in 1787 at the age of 119. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and charities £17. 

BLACKWOOD and CROWBOROUGH, a township in Horton parish, Stafford; 4 miles W of Leek. Real property, £2,996. Pop., 590. Houses, 122.

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