Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DUNSTALL

DUNSTALL, a township-chapelry in Tatenhall parish, Stafford; near the Grand Trunk canal and the Derby and Birmingham railway, on the border of Needwood forest, 4½ miles WSW of Burton-upon-Trent. It has a post office under Burton-upon-Trent. Real property, £3, 506. Pop., 240. Houses, 51. Dunstall Lodge is the seat of the Arkwrights. The chapelry was constituted in 1854. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £120.* Patron, John Hardy, Esq. The church is modern.


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

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Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place: Dunstall

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