Chebsey in 1859

CHEBSEY (ALL SAINTS), a parish, in the union of STONE, S. division of the hundred of PIREHILL, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 2 miles (E. by S.) 
from Eccleshall; containing, with the township of Cold-Norton, 442 inhabitants. The Grand Junction railway passes through the parish.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5.7.6.; net income, £211; patrons and appropriators, Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. In the churchyard was formerly a tall pyramidal stone, supposed to be the memorial of a bishop anciently slain near this place.  

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]