Butterton (near Newcastle under Lyme), Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Butterton (near Newcastle under Lyme) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1845 from Trentham, Staffordshire Ancient Parish, Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire Ancient Parish, and Swynnerton, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Millstone Green and Seabridge.

BUTTERTON, an ecclesiastical district, partly in the parishes of Swinnerton and Trentham, union of Stone, and partly in the parish and union of StokeUpon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 2½ miles (S. by W.) from Newcastle-under-Lyme; containing about 300 inhabitants, of whom 56 are in Butterton township. This district lies on the road from Drayton to Newcastle; the surface is undulated, and the scenery picturesque, the land being well wooded. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Owners of the Butterton estate: the income is derived from 22 acres of land, and other sources. The church, a cruciform edifice in the Norman style, with a Flemish tower, was built in 1844, at an expense of £2200, entirely obtained from the Butterton estate. A national school is supported by the family.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 460-462. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50849 Date accessed: 30 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Probate records
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