Description
Calton, three townships and a chapelry in Staffordshire. The townships are Calton-in-Mayfield, Calton-in-Blore, and Calton-in-Waterfall; they lie in three several parishes, designated in their respective names; and they are contiguous to one another at a point 2 1/2 miles W of the river Dove, 4 1/2 ENE of Froghall station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 6 1/2 NW by W of Ashborne, which is the post town; money order office, Waterhouses; telegraph office, Church Mayfield. Acreage, 1542; population, 221. The chapelry includes also a detached part of Croxden parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £100. The church was restored in 1875. A fair is held on 20 Sept.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
