Tittensor, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Tittensor, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Stone parish, Staffordshire, 1½ mile from Chard station on the L. & S.W.R. and the G.W.R., and 3½ miles. NNW of Stone, with a post and telegraph office under Stoke-upon-Trent; money order office, Barlaston. Tittensor Chase is the property of the Duke of Sutherland, who is lord of the manor. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1882;. population, 488. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £190. Patrons, Simeon's Trustees. The church is modern.
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 | Stone | |
Hundred | Pirehill | |
Poor Law union | Stone |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tittensor from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tittensor)
Maps
Online maps of Tittensor 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)