Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HEATON

HEATON, a township in Leek parish, Stafford; on the river Dane, at the boundary with Cheshire, 4¼ miles NW of Leek. Real property, £3,142. Pop., 396. Houses, 79. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in spinning cotton and forming grindstones.


(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: Heaton CP/Tn       Leek CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Heaton

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