Description
Chapel Chorlton, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village is 2 miles N of Standon Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., U SE of Whitmore, and 6 N by W of Eccles-hall. Post town, Newcastle-under-Lyme ; money order and telegraph office, Whitmore. The parish includes also the village of Hill Chorlton, the hamlet of Coombs, and part of that of Stableford Bridge. Acreage, 1983 ; population, 373. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was rebuilt in 1827 and restored in 1887. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels at Hill Chorlton.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
