Barton under Needwood, Staffordshire

Description
Barton-under-Needwood, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Tatenhill civil parish, Staffordshire. the village stands on the Grand Trunk Canal and the river Trent, 1 mile W of Barton and Walton station on the M.R., and 5 1/2 SW of Burton-upon-Trent. It has a post office under Burton-upon-Trent. Several fine villas are in the neighbourhood, including Barton Hall and Fulbrook House. The township comprises 3775 acres; population, 1765. A cottage hospital, with six beds, was established in 1879. The Barton Gas Company have their works here. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1881; population, 1753. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £419 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is Later English, and was built in the time of Henry VIII. by Dr John Taylor, Master of the Rolls and Archdeacon of Derby and Buckingham, a native of the village. It has an embattled tower with pinnacles, some stained windows and memorial tablets ; it was restored in 1864. St James' Mission Chapel was erected in 1880 by Lady Hardy in memory of her son, who died in the Zulu War. There are Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels.