Longnor in 1868

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

"LONGNOR, a township and small market town in the parish of Alstonfield, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, county Stafford, 6 miles S. of Buxton, its post town, 10 N.E. of Leek, and 29 N.E. of Stafford. It is situated in the north-eastern part of the county on the borders of Derbyshire, between the rivers Dove and Manifold. The township includes the hamlet of Nab End. Although nominally a market town, it is but an inconsiderable village"

"FAIRFIELD HEAD, a township and chapelry in the parish of Alstonfield, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, county Stafford, 7 miles S. of Buxton, its post town, and 9 from Leek, where there is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. The village is very small, consisting only of about half a dozen houses, but the township is large, and includes the hamlets of Hulme End, Reap's Moor, Newtown, and Wigginstall. The river Manifold flows through the place. There is a small church at Newtown, and one at Reap's Moor; the same minister serving at each alternately. The Wesleyans have chapels in the hamlets, and there is an endowed free school at Reap's Moor."

"In the neighbourhood is Beresford Hall, now in a ruinous state, formerly a seat of the noble family of that name. Within this township is the fishing cottage of Izaak Walton, on the bank of the river Dove, erected by his friend, Cotton, the poet. Viscount Beresford and Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart., are the lords of the manor."

 

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