Weston-upon-Trent in 1859

WESTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of PIREHILL, union, and N. division of the county, of STAFFORD, 4 miles (N.E.) from Stafford containing 562 inhabitants. The Grand Trunk canal passes through the parish. Extensive salt-works have been established here, the brine for which is raised in the parish of Ingestrie, by means of machinery worked by the waters of the Trent, and is conveyed across that river and under the canal, through pipes, to certain reservoirs, whence it runs into iron pans, is heated, and becomes crystallized for use.

The living is a vicarage, in the patronage, alternately, of J.N. Lane and W. Inge, Esqrs, with a net income of £96; impropriator, William Moore, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for £95, and those of the vicar for £25. There are 12 acres of impropriate, and 1 of vicarial glebe. The church is an ancient structure, with a large tower and spire; it was partly rebuilt in 1685, when the north aisle was taken down, and not restored till 1825, when the chancel was also rebuilt. In 1829, the spire was reconstructed. 

YARLETT, an extra-parochial liberty, in the parish of WESTON-UPON-TRENT, S. division of the hundred of PIREHILL, union, and N. division of the county of STAFFORD; containing 24 inhabitants. The liberty comprises about 400 acres of land, the property of the family of Tunnicliff, who reside at the Hall, a neat mansion situated on a gentle declivity. 

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]