Staffordshire Place Guide - Alton

Alton

All of the links in the table below enable you to view Collection catalogues in our online catalogue Gateway to the Past. Where there is no link this is either because we hold the collection but the catalogue is not yet online, or because the collection is held by another Archive Service, or is still in the hands of the organisation itself.

Location  
OS County Series 6 inches to 1 mile sheets   20SW 
OS National Grid 6 inches to 1 mile sheet  SK04SE
OS National Grid reference SK073424
Church of England  
Ancient Parish Alton, St Peter
Modern Parishes Cotton, St John (from 1795); Oakamoor, Holy Trinity (from 1832); Denstone, All Saints (from 1860)
Local Government  
Civil Parishes Alton; Cotton (from 1866); Denstone (from 1866); Farley (from 1866); Oakamoor (from 1896)
Hundred Totmonslow South
Poor Law Union Cheadle Poor Law Union (1836-1930)
District Council Cheadle Rural District (1894-1974); Staffordshire Moorlands District (1974-date)
Parliamentary Representation  
Parliamentary Constituency (to 1974) Northern Staffordshire (1832-1867); North Staffordshire (1867-1885); Leek (1885-1918); Stone (1918-1948); Leek (1948-1974)
Nonconformist Churches  
Methodist churches Alton Wesleyan Methodist Chapel; Oakamoor Primitive Methodist Chapel; Oakamoor Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Estate Collections   
Major estates  Chetwynd, later Chetwynd Talbot, family of Ingestre and Alton, Earls of Shrewsbury
Lesser estates  Bill family of Farley Hall
Photographs  
Building conservation photographs Building conservation photographs for Alton; Building conservation photographs for Cotton; Building conservation photographs for Farley; Building conservation photographs for Oakamoor.  Please see note 1 below.
Notes  
Note 1 These links provides a hitlist of photographs included within a larger collection covering the entire county.

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