Uttoxeter in 1868

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

"UTTOXETER, a parish, post and market town in the S. division of Totmonslow hundred, county Stafford, 14 miles N.E. of Stafford, its post town, and 10½ S. of Ashbourn. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. It is situated on the river Dove and the Caldon branch of the Trent and Mersey canal. The parish contains the townships of Crakemarsh, Stramshall and Creighton, Loxley, and Woodlands, also the hamlets of Woodgate, Little Bramshall, and Spath. Uttoxeter is a place of great antiquity, and was originally called Uttokeshather by the Saxons, and afterwards Uttocceaster and Utcester. (There is more of this description).

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Uttoxeter is to be found on a supplementary page.

Crakemarsh Creighton Little Bramshall Loxley Spath Stramshall Woodgate

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