Butterton (near Leek), Staffordshire Family History Guide
Butterton (near Leek) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1775 from a chapelry in Mayfield Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Butterton by Hulme End
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1746
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Online School Records
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BUTTERTON, a township-chapelry in Mayfield parish, Stafford; 5½ miles ENE of Cheddleton r. station, and 6 E of Leek. Post Town, Warslow, under Ashbourne. Acres, 1,940. Real property, £3,843. Pop., 325. Houses, 83. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £90. Patron, the Vicar of Mayfield. The church has a tower, and is good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £37.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Leek
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Alstonfield
- Poor Law Union: Leek
- Hundred: South Totmonslow
- Province: Canterbury