Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTON-IN-THE-MOORS

NORTON-IN-THE-MOORS, a township and a parish in Leek district, Stafford. The township lies on the Caldon canal and on the Biddulph branch of the North Staffordshire railway, around Ford-Green r. station, and 2 miles N E of Burslem; has a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent; and contains the hamlets of Ford-Green, Norton-Green, Smallthorn, and Milton, and part of Whitfield ville, the other part of which is in Bemersley township. Real property, £13, 765; of which £4, 194 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 3, 106; in 1861, 4, 135. Houses, 832. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of the pottery trade. The parish contains also the township of Bemersley, and comprises 4, 234 acres. Real property, £15, 172. Pop. in 1851, 3, 327; in 1861, 4, 393. Houses, 877. The property is subdivided. Norton House is a chief residence. The land is hilly and bleak; but the substrata are rich in minerals. Pottery manufacture is largely carried on; coal is extensively mined:and there is a large iron foundry. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £550.* Patron, the Right Hon.B. Adderley. The church is good The vicarages, of Smallthorn, Brown-Edge, and Milton are separate benefices. There are Independent, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, national schools, and charities £10.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Norton in the Moors CP/Ch       Leek RegD/PLU       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Norton in the Moors

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