In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hixon like this:
HIXON, a chapelry in Colwich and Stowe parishes, Staffordshire; on the Macclesfield and Colwich railway, adjacent to the river Trent, 6½ miles ESE of Stafford. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stafford; and it was constituted in 1848. Pop., 710. Houses, 174. Pop. of the Stowe portion, 620. Houses, 150. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern.
Additional information about this locality is available for Colwich
Hixon through time
Hixon is now part of Stafford district. Click here for graphs and data of how Stafford has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hixon itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hixon, in Stafford and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24153
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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