Description
Gayton, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, near the river Trent and the Grand Trunk Canal, 1 mile NE of Weston station on the G.N.R. and the North Staffordshire railway, and 5 miles NE of Stafford. There is a post office under Stafford; money order office, Weston; telegraph office, Ingestre railway station. Acreage, 1515 ; population, 221, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Harrowby. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1870; it contains an old Norman font and an ancient monument.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
