Tixall, Staffordshire

Description
Tixall, a parish, with a village, in Staffordshire, 1 mile N of Milford station on the Trent Valley section of the L. & N.W.R., 3 miles NW of Colwich, and 4 E by S of Stafford. It has a post office under Stafford; money order and telegraph office, Milford. Acreage, 2369; population, 212. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. Tixall Hall was the ancient seat of the Aston family. The present mansion was rebuilt about 1780. Only the gateway remains of the former mansion, a noble Elizabethan edifice, in which Mary Queen of Scots was confined for a short time. The park is extensive, and the grounds were laid out by " Capability" Browne. Excellent stone is quarried. Two barrows are on Tixall Heath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £182 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. The church was rebuilt in 1772, and again in 1849.