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Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis - 1859

WHITMORE, a parish, in the union of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, N. division of the hundred of PIREHILL and of the county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (S.W.) from Newcastle; containing 367 inhabitants. The parish is on the road from Newcastle to Market-Drayton, and comprises 1986a.3r.5p., whereof 250 acres are common or waste, an act for inclosing which was passed in 1841. 

The Grand Junction railway has one of its principal stations here, where it attains its summit level; the buildings extend 300 feet in length. The village is beautifully situated, and the cottages are kept in neat order, and ornamented with roses and woodbine: Whitmore Hall, with the grounds attached to it, is one of the pleasantest seats in this part of the county.

The living is a rectory not in charge, in the gift of Captain Mainwaring: the tithes have been commuted for £280, and the glebe comprises 29 acres. The church is a handsome structure in the later English style. 

 

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