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Weston-upon-Trent in 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

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

"WESTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish in the S. division of Pirehill hundred, county Stafford, 4 miles N.E. of Stafford. It is a station on the Trent Valley railway. The village is situated on the river Trent and Grand Trunk canal. The parish, belonging chiefly to Earl Ferrers, includes the hamlet of Shirleywich. There are extensive salt works supplied from brine springs in the neighbouring parish of Ingestre. The manufacture of scythe stones is carried on.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value £120. The church, dedicated to All Saints, was rebuilt in 1829, and has two windows of stained glass. Earl Ferrers is lord of the manor."

"SHIRLEYWICH, a village in the parish of Weston-upon-Trent, county Stafford, 4 miles N.E. of Stafford, on the Grand Trunk canal and river Trent."

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