48 A TOPOGRAPHICAL 



WHITMORE is a small appurtenance of Burton, and is situated in 

 the meadows about half a mile north of the town. The house, which 

 formerly belonged to the Abbots, was taken down, and a smaller 

 one built for the tenant. Over the parlour-chimney there is still 

 preserved the name of Thomas Feyld, Abbot, curiously embossed 

 in stone. 



SHOPNALL, an ancient grange belonging to the Abbey of Burton, 

 is situated about a mile west of the town, upon a bold eminence, 

 above which rises Sinai Park, a summer retreat of the Abbots. The 

 situation is very commanding, and the prospect from it is delightful. 

 There is a chalybeate spring a little below the house. 



HORNINGLOW is another hamlet of the parish of Burton. It is 

 an angular hill, which projects into the expanse of meadows near 

 the confluence of the Trent and Dove, and was granted, with the 

 rest of the Abbey lands, at the dissolution of monasteries, to the 

 Paget family. The Marquis of Anglesea is now the principal pro- 

 prietor. The turnpike-road crosses Horninglow, and the canal 

 passes near it. This hill abounds with gravel, and contains large 

 quantities of very rich marl, variegated with white veins. 



STRETTON, a hamlet of Burton, is situated a mile north of the 

 town, on the Ikenild-street, arid was a place of some note in the 

 time of the Romans. It is flat, the soil gravelly and light, and the 

 land principally meadow and pasture. It is subject to inundations 

 both from the Trent and the Dove. Near Stretton, an acqueduct of 

 twenty three arches conveys the canal over the Dove, the ground 

 being raised for that purpose to the extent of a mile and a quarter 

 in length. 



ROLLESTON is an ancient village, in a low situation near the river 

 Dove, between Burton and Tutbury, with a brook running through 

 it from Needwood. The land is a strong clay loam, with lar^e 

 quantities of excellent marl, which is sometimes used as manure. 

 The church is a rectory in the Deanery of Tamworth ; the value 

 of the living, with the tithes, o300 per annum, and the Lord of the 

 Manor is patron. Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart, has a beautiful 

 seat here. 



ANNESLEY is a small hamlet of Rolleston, about a mile south of 

 it, on th<* verge of the Forest of Needwood. 



TUTBURY is situated five miles from Burton, on the south bank 

 of the river Dove, which separates it from Derbyshire. The ele- 

 vated and commanding site of Tutbury Castle was occupied by a 

 fortress in the time of the Heptarchy, when it was the principal resi- 





