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.