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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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HORNINGLOW, a village and a township in Burton-upon-Trent parish, Stafford. The village stands on a rising ground, near the Grand Trunk canal and the Burton and Derby railway-, 2 miles NW of Burton-uponTrent; commands a view of the Trent valley; and has a post office under Burton-upon-Trent.-The township includes also the hamlets of Outwood and Whetmore. Acres, 2, 430. Real property, £7, 047. Pop. in 1851, . 815; in 1861, 1, 968. Houses, 395. The increase of pop. arose partly from the operations of a Freehold Land Society. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Anglcsey. -A chapelry of H. was constituted in 1866. Pop., 2, 650. The living is a p. curacy. Value, not reported. Patron, W. Hopkins, Esq. The church was built in 1865. There are a Wesleyan chapel and the Burton workhouse.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a township" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Horninglow |
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