Croxden in 1859

CROXDEN (ST. GILES), a parish, in the union of UTTOXETER, S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (E.S.E.) from Cheadle; containing, with part of Calton chapelry, 293 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 2588 acres, of which 1638 are grassland, 480 arable, 270 woods and plantations, and 200 common.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income £92; patron, Earl of Macclesfield.  Gervase, Lord Pierrepoint, in 1715, bequeathed a rent-charge of £5 for education; and there is a school in union with the National Society. Bertram de Verdun, in 1176, gave the monks of Aulney, in Normandy, a piece of land at Chotes, or Chotene (probably Cotton), to build a Cistercian abbey, which three years afterwards was removed to Croxden, where he and his family were buried; it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and at the general Dissolution had an abbot and twelve religious, whose revenue was valued at £103.6.7. The remains of this once stately and sumptuous edifice exhibit good specimens of the early English style. 

YATE, GREAT, a township, in the parish of CROXDEN, union of UTTOXETER, S. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, N. division of the county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (N.N.W.) from Uttoxeter. 

 

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