Hatherton, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Hatherton, a village and a township in Gailey-cum-Hatherton ecclesiastical parish, Wolverhampton parish, Staffordshire, 2 miles W of Cannock and 3 SE of Penkridge. Post town, Cannock, under Stafford. Acreage, 2015; population, 468. It gives the title of Baron to the family of Littleton. Hatherton Hall is the chief residence. The church was built in 1864. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The ancient inn at Four Crosses (date 1636) is picturesque and interesting. The following inscription is carved on an oak beam over one of the windows:- " Pleres si scires unum tna tempera mensem Rides cum non sit fasitan una dies."

Dean Swift stayed at this inn, and scratched the following distich on a window pane with his diamond King:- " Fool, to hang up Four Crosses at your door; Hang up your wife, she's crasser than the four."

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 Hatherton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hatherton 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