Cauldon, Staffordshire

Description
Cauldon or Caldon, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, on the river Hamps, 3 1/2 miles ENE of Froghall station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 7 WNW of Ashborne, which is the post town; money order office, Waterhouses; telegraph office, Oakamoor. Acreage, 1494; population, 295. Much of the surface is barren moor. Excellent limestone is extensively quarried on the lofty hill of Cauldon Lowe, and sent on a railway of three inclined planes to the Cauldon Canal at Froghall. Good fossil marble also is found. The river Hamps runs a long distance in the neighbourhood underground. Urns and flint-headed arrows have been found at Big-Lowe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £148 with residence. The church is small, has a tower with pinnacles, and was restored in 1887 ; it contains monuments to the families of Cropper, Wilmot, Marshall, and Whieldon. There is a reading-room in the parish.