Description
Stapenhill, a township and a parish in Derbyshire. The township lies on the river Trent, 1 mile SE of Burton-upon-Trent, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Burton-upon-Trent. Acreage, 811; population of the civil parish, 4638, of the ecclesiastical, 5174. The parish includes the townships of Cauldwell and Stanton-with-Newhall. British, Roman, and Saxon remains were found in 1881. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £350. Patron, the Marquis of Anglesey. The church was rebuilt in 1881, is in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and contains a monument of 1497. There are Free and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
