Croxden, Staffordshire

Description
Croxden, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands on a tributary of the river Dove, 2 1/4 miles WNW of Rocester Junction station on the North Staffordshire railway, 2 S of Alton station on the same line, and 6 NNW of Uttoxeter. Post town, Stafford; money order and telegraph office, Alton. The parish includes the hamlets of Great Gate and Woottons. Acreage, 2447; population of the civil parish, 185 ; of the ecclesiastical, 227. An abbey was founded here in 1176, and the remains of it, including the west front, the south transept, and part of the cloister, show fine features of Early English. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £92. Patron, the Earl of Macclesfield. The church replaces an older one taken down in 1889.