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Mucklestone, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Mucklestone, a village and a township in Staffordshire, and a parish partly also in Salop. The village lies near the river Tern at the boundary with Salop, 1½ mile E of Norton-in-Hales station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 4 NE of Market Drayton. The parish contains also the townships of Aston, Knighton, Oakley, and Winnington in Staffordshire, and the townships of Woore, Bearstone, Dorrington, and Gravenhauger in Salop. There is a post and money order office at Knighton, under Market Drayton; telegraph office, Norton-in-Hales. Acreage of the Staffordshire portion, 4252; population, 709. Acreage of the Salop portion, 4457; population, 830. Population of the ecclesiastical parish of Mucklestone, 669; of that of Woore, 870. The manor belonged anciently to the Morgans, and belongs now to Lord Crewe. Oakley Hall is the chief residence, and stands in an extensive park. Good building stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £640. Patron, Lord Houghton. The church was rebuilt in 1883, but retains a previous tower, from which Margaret of Anjou in 1459 witnessed the defeat of the Royalists on Bloreheath. A memorial window to Queen Margaret adorns the tower. The vicarage of Woore is a separate benefice. There is a Wesleyan chapel near Aston.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyStaffordshire 
Ecclesiastical parishMuckleston St. Mary 
HundredNorth Bradford 
Poor Law unionDrayton 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Mucklestone


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Mucklestone from the following:


Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.


Maps

Online maps of Mucklestone are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online:


Villages, Hamlets, &c

Aston (Mucklestone)
Knighton (Muckleston)
Oakley (Mucklestone)
Winnington
DistrictNewcastle-under-Lyme
CountyStaffordshire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtTF9
Post TownMarket Drayton

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