Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hopton and Coton

Hopton and Coton, township, St Mary and St Chad par., in co. and partly in SE. of Stafford mun. bor., 3711 ac., pop. 1392; pop. of town part, 789; here, on Hopton Heath, a battle was fought (1643) between the Royalists and Parliamentarians.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place: Hopton

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