Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HANBURY

HANBURY, a village and a parish in Burton-upon-Trent district, and a parish partly also in Uttoxeter district, Stafford. The village stands on an eminence near the river Dove and the boundary with Derby, 2½ miles SSE of Sudbury r. station, and 6 NW by W of Burton-upon-Trent; commands a pleasant view of the heights of Derbyshire; and has a post office under Burton-upon-Trent. The township comprises 3, 195 acres. Pop., 543. Houses, 114. The parish contains also the townships of Newborough, Hanbury-Woodend, Coton, Fauld, Marchington, Marchington-Woodlands, and Draycott-in-the-Clay. Acres, 12, 112. Real property, £6, 6 71. Pop., 2, 638. Houses, 549. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Bishop of Lichfield. A nunnery was founded here, about 680, by Ethelred, King of Mercia, and put under the government of his sister, St. Werburgh, who was buried and enshrined in it; but, on the invasion of the Danes in 875, her body was removed to Chester, and the nunnery was destroyed. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £362. * Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is ancient, with a tower; was restored in 1849; and the chancel was rebuilt in 1862, and has a memorial window to the late Prince Consort. The vicarages of Newborough, Marchington, and Marchington-Woodlands are separate benefices. There are a national school, an endowed school with £36, and other charities with £123.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hanbury CP/AP       Uttoxeter RegD/PLU       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Hanbury

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