Ipstones in 1868

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

"IPSTONES, a parish in the hundred of Totmonslow, county Stafford, 4 miles N. of Cheadle, its post town, and 2½ of Froghall station on the London and North-Western railway. The village, which is large, is situated on high ground near the river Churnet and the Uttoxeter canal. The parish contains the hamlets of Foxt and Morridge.

Here are excellent gritstone quarries, affording employment to many of the inhabitants. The soil is generally barren, and a great portion of it is composed of moors and peat mosses. The face of the country has of late been greatly improved by plantations.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £130, in trust to the freeholders. The church, dedicated to St. Leonard, has a tower containing one bell. In the interior are an enamelled pedigree and a monumental urn of the Sneyd family. There is a chapel-of-ease at Foxt, also places of worship for the Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

Here is an endowed school called the Agricultural School, with a piece of land adjoining, which the pupils cultivate. There are various small charities, producing about £8 12s. per annum. Belmont Hall is the principal residence."

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Ipstones is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Foxt
• Froghall
• Morredge

 

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