Whitmore in 1868

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

"WHITMORE, a parish in the hundred of North Pirehill, county Stafford, 4½ miles S.W. of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and 15 from Stafford. It is a station on the London and North-Western railway. The village is situated on the road from Newcastle to Market-Drayton, and on the river Sow, a branch of the Trent. Coal exists in the neighbourhood, but is not worked. An Act for enclosing land was passed in 1841. The North Staffordshire hounds meet here.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £500. The church, formerly a chapel-of-ease to Stoke-upon-Trent, was repaired in 1845. The register commences in 1858. The charities produce about £10 per annum. Rear-Admiral Rowland Mainwaring, of Whitmore Hall, is lord of the manor."

"WILLOUGHBRIDGE, a hamlet in the parish of Whitmore, hundred of Pirehill, county Stafford, 6 miles S.W. of Newcastle."

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