| Miles. | 2d Class. | |
|---|---|---|
| From Liverpool and Manchester | 62½ | 9s. 6d. |
| From Birmingham | 34¾ | 5s. 0d. |
From here Eccleshall is 21 miles west; Stone 3, and Cheadle 14 eastward.
Norton is a small township in the parish of Chebsey, and south division of the hundred of Pirehill; Pop, by return of 1821, 44; return of 1831, 37; An. As. Val £1,543. This is one of the few places in which the population has decreased. (Line continued p. 89.)
Eccleshall, a market town, parish, and township in the north division of the hundred of Pirehill, county of Stafford, pleasantly situated on one of the rivulets that flow into the river Sow; Pop., town 1,285, town and parish 4,471, essentially agricultural. Market on Friday; fairs, Thursday before Mid Lent Thursday, Holy Thursday, Aug. 16, and first Friday in November, for cattle, sheep, and horses. An. As. Val. 23,454. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is an ancient structure, in the early English style of architecture, but principally remarkable as the place in which Queen Margaret took sanctuary when she fled from Mucklestone after Lord Audley's disgraceful defeat by the Marquis of Salisbury. The living is a discharged vicarage, and a peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield; value K.B. £7 14s. 4d., P.R. £97 12s.; endowed with £1,300 by the Crown, private benefaction, and Parliamentary grant. Patron,
