Horton, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Horton, a township and a parish in Staffordshire. The township bears the name of Horton and Horton Hay, 3¼miles NW of Leek, and 1½ mile W of Budyard station on the North Staffordshire railway. It has a post office under Leek; money order office, Leek; telegraph office, Rudyard (R.S.) The parish includes also the township of Blackwood and Crow-borough. Acreage, 4975, including 92 of water; population, 1216. Horton Hall, Cliff Park Hall, and Horton Lodge are chief residences. Eudyard Lake, the Cauldon Canal reservoir, lies near the latter, and is 1¾ mile long. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £190 with residence. The church is Perpendicular, was restored in 1863, and contains monuments of the Cromptons, the Fowlers, and the Wedgwoods. The churchyard contains the tombstone of a woman who died in 1787 at the age of 119. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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.

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 Horton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Horton 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

Villages, Hamlets, &c