Harlaston or Harleston, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Harlaston or Harleston, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Staffordshire, on the river Mease, near the boundary with Derbyshire, 1 mile ENE of Elford and Haselour station on the M.R., and 4 miles N of Tamworth. There is a post office under Tamworth; money order and telegraph office, Elford. Acreage of township, 1524; population, 241. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1843. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; value, £390. The church consists of nave, south porch, and an llth century Norman tower, and contains some ancient monuments.
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 | Clifton Campville | |
Hundred | Offlow | |
Poor Law union | Tamworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Harlaston or Harleston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Harleston)
- Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Past and Present, 1884
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Harlaston or Harleston 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: