Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARLASTON, or HARLESTON

HARLASTON, or HARLESTON, a parochial chapelry in Clifton-Campville parish, Stafford; on an affluent of the river Trent, adjacent to the Birmingham and Derby railway, near the boundary with Derbyshire, 1 mile ENE of Haselour r. station, and 4 N of Tamworth. Post-town, Clifton-Campville, under Tamworth. Real property, £2,532. Pop., 239. Houses, 56. The manorhouse was ancient; but has been rebuilt. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £444.* Patron, Francis Willington, Esq. The church has an old wooden belfry.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parochial chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Clifton Campville and Haunton CP/AP       Harlaston Ch/CP       Staffordshire AncC
Place names: HARLASTON     |     HARLASTON OR HARLESTON     |     HARLESTON
Place: Harlaston

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