Weston-Upon-Trent
WESTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of Pirehill, union and N. division of the county of Stafford, 4½ miles (N. E.) from Stafford; containing 562 inhabitants. The Grand Trunk canal passes through the parish. Extensive salt-works have been established here; the brine is raised in the parish of Ingestrie, by means of machinery worked by the waters of the Trent, and is conveyed across that river and under the canal, in pipes to certain reservoirs, whence it runs into iron pans, is heated, and becomes crystallized for use. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Rev. C. Inge, with a net income of £96; impropriator, William Moore, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for £95, and those of the vicar for £25: there are 12½ acres of impropriate, and 1¼ of vicarial, glebe. The church is an ancient structure, with a large tower and spire; it was partly rebuilt in 1685, and the north aisle, which had been taken down in that year, was restored in 1825, when the chancel was also rebuilt. In 1829, the spire was reconstructed
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.