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A vision of Britain through time
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MILTON, a village and a chapelry in Norton-in-the Moors parish, Stafford. The village stands on the Caldon canal, near the Burslem or Longport station of the Potteries, Biddulph, and Congleton railway, 2 miles E of Burslem; and has a post office under Stoke-uponTrent. The chapelry was constituted in 1865. Pop., about 1,200. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in the potteries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, not reported. Patron, the Right Hon.B. Adderley. A Wesleyan chapel, in memorial of the late Rev. S. Lee, a native of the village, and the first missionary to New Zealand, was built in 1865; is in a foreign pointed style; and contains 300 sittings.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Norton in the Moors CP/Ch Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Milton |
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