Gayton, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Gayton, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, near the river Trent and the Grand Trunk Canal, 1 mile NE of Weston station on the G.N.R. and the North Staffordshire railway, and 5 miles NE of Stafford. There is a post office under Stafford; money order office, Weston; telegraph office, Ingestre railway station. Acreage, 1515; population, 221, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Harrowby. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1870; it contains an old Norman font and an ancient monument.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Gayton St. John the Baptist | |
| Hundred | Pirehill | |
| Poor Law union | Stafford |
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 Gayton
Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Gayton
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Gayton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Gayton (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Gayton 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: