Basford
BASFORD, a township, in the parish of Cheddleton, union of Cheadle, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Leek; containing 349 inhabitants. The river Churnet and the Uttoxeter canal pass on the west.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.