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COTTON, or Lower and Upper Cotton, a township. chapelry in Alton parish, Stafford; near the Uttoxeter canal and the North Stafford railway, 2 miles ENE of Oakamoor r. station, and 5 NE of Cheadle. Post town, Oakamoor, under Stafford. Real property, £1, 954. Pop., 446. Houses, 88. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £44. Patron, the Vicar of Alton. The church was built in 1795; and there is a Roman Catholic chapel
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Staffordshire AncC |
Place names: | COTTON | COTTON OR LOWER AND UPPER COTTON | LOWER AND UPPER COTTON |
Place: | Cotton |
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