Description
Blurton, a village a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Trentham parish, Staffordshire, adjacent to the Grand Trunk Canal, 2 miles E of Trentham. Post town, Stoke-on-Trent; money order office, Dresden; telegraph office, Longton. A portion of the township, with part of Stone parish, forms the ecclesiastical parish of St Bartholomew Blurton, the population of which is 438. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1867. There is also a mission chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
