A large market for cattle is also held four times a year. The chapel is a handsome and commodious structure, erected in 1788, and is remarkable for its tower, which is 100 feet in height. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £1,100 private benefaction, £1,000 by the Crown, and £200 by a parliamentary grant; patrons, the trustees. There are also places of worship for various denominations of Dissenters, a Roman Catholic chapel; and a National School, supported by subscription, in which 500 children are educated. The Grand Trunk Canal flows near the town, and such is the quantity of earthenware exported, that there is a company established for the express purpose of carrying that article. The town contains a Mechanics Institution, and an excellent Dispensary.
Shelton is a township and chapelry, 2 miles E.N.E, of Newcastle: Pop. 9,267. The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through the village and much facilitates its trade. There are upwards of thirty manufactories in the town, which employ upwards of three thousand of its inhabitants. The village is well paved, and lighted with gas. In it is a British and Foreign School, in which 600 children are instructed. Sunday schools, belonging to the establishment and to dissenters, and a Mechanics Institution. The living is a curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, not in charge; patron, the rector of Stoke-upon-Trent. There
