Place:


Salt  Staffordshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Salt like this:

SALT, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in St. Mary and St. Chad parish, Staffordshire. The village stands on the river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal, near Sandon r. station, and 3½ miles N N E of Stafford. The township includes also the hamlet of Enson. Real property, £2, 795. Pop., 509. Houses, 108. The chapelrywas constituted in 1844. Post-town, Sandon, under Stone. Pop., 808. Houses, 165. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110.* Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church was built in 1842; and a national school was built in 1857.

Salt through time

Salt is now part of Stafford district. Click here for graphs and data of how Stafford has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Salt itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Salt, in Stafford and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8498

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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