Draycott in the Clay, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Draycott or Draycott-in-the-Clay, a township in Hanbury parish, Staffordshire, near the river Dove, 1 mile S of Sudbury station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 5 miles SE of Uttoxeter. It has a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Sudbury. It includes the hamlets of Moreton and Stubby Lane. Acreage, 1930: population, 491. There is a Wesleyan chapel and a national school licensed for divine worship.

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 Draycott in the Clay from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Draycott-in-the-Clay)
• Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Past and Present, 1884

Maps

Online maps of Draycott in the Clay 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)

Villages, Hamlets, &c