Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mucklestone (or Muxton)

Mucklestone (or Muxton), township, Staffordshire, and par., partly also in Shropshire, 4 ½ miles NE. of Market Dray ton - par., 8531 ac., pop. 1613; township, 3240 ac., pop. 763; from the tower of the church Margaret of Anjou, in 1459, witnessed the defeat of the Lancastrians on Bloreheath.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place names: MUCKLESTONE     |     MUCKLESTONE OR MUXTON     |     MUXTON
Place: Mucklestone

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