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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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HOPTON AND COTON, a township in St. Mary and St. Chad parish, Staffordshire; 2½ miles NE of Stafford. Real property, £5, 086. Pop. in 1851, 468, in 1861, 1, 174. Houses, 93. The increase of pop. arose from the enlargement of the county lunatic asylum, and the erection of the Coton Hill lunatic asylum; and, at the census of 1861, these institutions had respectively 540 and 162 inmates. Hopton Heath here, now enclosed, was the scene of a severe action, in 1643, between the royalists, under the Earl of Horthampton, and the parliamentarians, under Sir John Gell and Sir William Brereton.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Hopton |
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