Horton, Staffordshire

Description
Horton, a township and a parish in Staffordshire. The township bears the name of Horton and Horton Hay, 3 1/4miles NW of Leek, and 1 1/2 mile W of Budyard station on the North Staffordshire railway. It has a post office under Leek; money order office, Leek; telegraph office, Rudyard (R.S.) The parish includes also the township of Blackwood and Crow-borough. Acreage, 4975, including 92 of water; population, 1216. Horton Hall, Cliff Park Hall, and Horton Lodge are chief residences. Eudyard Lake, the Cauldon Canal reservoir, lies near the latter, and is 1 3/4 mile long. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £190 with residence. The church is Perpendicular, was restored in 1863, and contains monuments of the Cromptons, the Fowlers, and the Wedgwoods. The churchyard contains the tombstone of a woman who died in 1787 at the age of 119. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.