Hilderstone, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Hilderstone, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Stone parish, Staffordshire. The village stands 3½ miles N of Sandon station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 4 ENE of Stone, and has a post and money order office under Stone; telegraph office, Stone. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1840. Population, 355. Hilderstone Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, and the gross value is £108 with residence. The church was built in 1833. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Hilderstone from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hilderstone 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