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HIXON, a chapelry in Colwich and Stowe parishes, Staffordshire; on the Macclesfield and Colwich railway, adjacent to the river Trent, 6½ miles ESE of Stafford. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stafford; and it was constituted in 1848. Pop., 710. Houses, 174. Pop. of the Stowe portion, 620. Houses, 150. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Colwich CP/AP Stowe AP/CP Staffordshire AncC |
Place: | Hixon |
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