Croxton, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Croxton St Paul's, an ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, comprising an area of 7805 acres. The village of Croxton is 3¼ miles WSW of Standon Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 NW by W of Eccleshall. Post town, Eccleshall. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1856, and includes the townships of Croxton, Broughton, Gerard's Bromley, Podmore, Charnes, and Chat-cull. Population, 892. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was erected in 1854. This parish is on the exact watershed of England; in one field are two springs, one forming the source of the river Sow (or Sough), a tributary of the Trent, running eastward to the sea by the Humber, the other being the source of a stream running westward by the Fern and Severn to the Bristol Channel.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Croxton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Croxton 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

Villages, Hamlets, &c