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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))
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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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