Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BASFORD

BASFORD, a township in Cheddleton parish, Stafford; 3 miles S of Leek. Real property, £3,128. Pop., 428. Houses, 76. Charles Cotton, the comic poet, born in 1630, was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cheddleton CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Basford

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