Oulton, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Oulton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Stone parish, Staffordshire. The village stands on the slope of a hill, 1½ mile N by E of Stone. It has a post and money order office under Stone; telegraph office, Stone. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1879. Population, 8S6. Oulton House, Oulton Old Hall, Oulton Grange, Oulton Rocks, and Ribblestone Hall are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £178. Patrons, Simeon's Trustees. The church was erected in 1872. St Mary's Abbey is a modern Roman Catholic foundation of the Benedictine order.
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 | Norbury | |
Hundred | Cuttlestone | |
Poor Law union | Newport |
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 Oulton
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Oulton from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Oulton 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)