Mucklestone, Staffordshire

Description
Mucklestone, a village and a township in Staffordshire, and a parish partly also in Salop. The village lies near the river Tern at the boundary with Salop, 1 1/2 mile E of Norton-in-Hales station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 4 NE of Market Drayton. The parish contains also the townships of Aston, Knighton, Oakley, and Winnington in Staffordshire, and the townships of Woore, Bearstone, Dorrington, and Gravenhauger in Salop. There is a post and money order office at Knighton, under Market Drayton ; telegraph office, Norton-in-Hales. Acreage of the Staffordshire portion, 4252; population, 709. Acreage of the Salop portion, 4457 ; population, 830. Population of the ecclesiastical parish of Mucklestone, 669 ; of that of Woore, 870. The manor belonged anciently to the Morgans, and belongs now to Lord Crewe. Oakley Hall is the chief residence, and stands in an extensive park. Good building stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £640. Patron, Lord Houghton. The cliurch was lebuilt in 1883, but retains a previous tower, from which Margaret of Anjou in 1459 witnessed the defeat of the Royalists on Bloreheath. A memorial window to Queen Margaret adorns the tower. The vicarage of Woore is a separate benefice. There is a Wesleyan chapel near Aston.