Description
Marchington, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Hanbury parish, Staffordshire. The village stands adjacent to the river Dove and the boundary with Derbyshire, 3 1/2 miles ESE of Uttoxeter, and has a station on the North Staffordshire railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Uttoxeter. The township comprises 2493 acres; population, 526. The living is a vicarage, with Marchington Woodlands, in the diocese of Lichfield; joint net value, £301 with residence. The church is an ancient brick edifice with a low tower, and contains a monument of 1592 to Sir Walter Vernon. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and three almshouses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
