Tixall in 1859

TIXALL (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST), a parish, in the S. division of the hundred of PIREHILL, union, and N. division of the county, of STAFFORD, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Stafford; containing 209 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated between the London and Liverpool, and the London and Chester, roads, at the distance of one mile from each, is bounded on the east by the river Trent, and comprises 2323 acres by admeasurement. 

Immense quantities of freestone are quarried in the neighbourhood of Tixall Hall, a fine old mansion, built of that found upon the plot; and much of it has been used in the construction of the bridges and locks of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal, which passes through the parish, and of the Trent and Mersey canal, in the vicinity, the stone being peculiarly adapted for resisting the action of water.

The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £8.0.8.; net income, £200; patron, the Earl Talbot, to whom the whole parish belongs, by purchase in 1844 from Sir Clifford Constable: there is a parsonage-house, with about 40 acres of glebe-land.

 

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