Blurton, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Blurton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Trentham parish, Staffordshire, adjacent to the Grand Trunk Canal, 2 miles E of Trentham. Post town, Stoke-on-Trent; money order office, Dresden; telegraph office, Longton. A portion of the township, with part of Stone parish, forms the ecclesiastical parish of St Bartholomew Blurton, the population of which is 438. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1867. There is also a mission chapel.

Administration

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

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 Blurton

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Blurton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blurton)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Blurton 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser