Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MUCKLESTONE, or Muxton

MUCKLESTONE, or Muxton, a township in Stafford, and a parish partly also in Salop; all in the district of Market-Drayton. The township lies near the river Tern at the boundary with Salop, 4½ miles N E of Market-Drayton r. station. Real property, £1, 876. Pop., 177. Houses, 35. The parish contains also the townships of Aston, Knighton, Oakley, and Winnington in Stafford, and the chapelry of Woore in Salop; and its post town is Market-Drayton. Acres of the Stafford portion, 3, 240; of the Salop portion, 5, 291. Real property of the Stafford portion, £5, 949; of the Salop portion, £6, 693. Pop. of the whole in 1851, 1, 736; in 1861, 1, 610. Houses, 340. Pop. of the Salop portion in 1851, 860; in 1861, 783. Houses, 169. The property is notmuch divided. The manor belonged anciently to the Morgans, and belongs now to Lord Crewe. Oakley Hallis a chief residence, and stands in an extensive park. Good building stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £1,072.* Patron, Lord Crewe. The church was rebuilt in 1790; but retains a previous tower, from which Margaret of Anjou, in 1459, witnessed the defeat of the royalists on Bloreheath. The p. curacy of Woore is a separate benefice. There are schools with £46 a year from endowment, and charities £126.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Shropshire AncC       Staffordshire AncC
Place names: MUCKLESTONE     |     MUCKLESTONE OR MUXTON     |     MUXTON
Place: Mucklestone

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