Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COTON

COTON, a township in Hanbury parish, Stafford; on the river Dove, and the North Stafford railway, 3¼ miles W of Tutbury. Pop., 72. A viaduct of the North Stafford railway, 114 feet high, and 693 feet long, is in the neighbourhood.


(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: Hanbury CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Coton in the Clay

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