Description
Barlaston, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, on the Grand Trunk Canal, 3 miles NNW of Stone. It has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post office under Stoke-on-Trent; telegraph office, Tittensor. Acreage, 2184; population, 782. Barlaston Hall was formerly a seat of the Bagnalls, and is now the seat of the Broughton-Adderley family. New Hall and Hartwell Hall are other residences in this parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £200. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church is modern, but has an ancient tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
