Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Eccleshall

Eccleshall, market town, par., and township, in co. and 7 miles NW. of Stafford -- par., 21,738 ac., pop. 4455; township, 19,755 ac., pop. 4075; P.O., T.O., 3 Banks. Market-day, Friday; agriculture is the chief industry; Eccleshall Castle has been the seat of the bishops of Lichfield from the 13th century.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town, parish and township"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Eccleshall CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Eccleshall

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