Oakley (Mucklestone), Staffordshire
Historical Description
Oakley, a township in Mucklestone parish, Staffordshire, on the river Tern, 2 miles NE of Market Drayton. Oakley Hall is the seat of the baronet family of Chetwode, and stands in a spacious park.
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 County | Staffordshire | |
Civil parish | Muckleston | |
Hundred | Pirehill | |
Poor Law union | Drayton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Oakley (Mucklestone) from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Oakley (Mucklestone) are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)