Tixall in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"TIXALL, a parish in the S. division of Pirehill hundred, county Stafford, 4 miles S.E. of Stafford, its post town, and 2½ from the Colwich station, on the Trent Valley railway. The village is situated on the Worcester canal and the river Trent. On Tixall Heath are two barrows called "the King's and Queen's Lows." In the vicinity are stone quarries.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £200. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a church school. A Roman Catholic chapel is attached to the Hall, rebuilt about 1780, and situated opposite the Elizabethan gateway of the old seat, which was erected in 1555. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]