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and valued at 36. Is. 8d. in the King's books. Tatenhill church 

 is remarkable for an echo, by which four or five syllables spoken in 

 a low voice, on the opposite hill, are distinctly reverberated by the 

 tower. A brook runs through the middle of the village, and for- 

 merly turned a corn-mill, which has since been converted into a 

 screw-mill, where 700 grose of screws of various sizes are manu- 

 factured weekly. 



Callingwood is situated on the east side of Needwood Forest, a 

 mile north-west from Tatenhill church, and in the survey made in 

 the time of Queen Elizabeth, it is called a hamlet within Barton, 

 granted out of the forest to Radulpho de Bosco Calumpniato, one of 

 Earl Ferrer's servants. A number of Roman coins were found in 

 this manor, towards the close of the eighteenth century ; a pre- 

 sumptive proof that the Romans had been on the spot, which is the 

 more probable, as the Ikenild-street passed to the east of this 

 place. There are some vestiges of an ancient moated house here : 

 the present manor-house is occupied by a farmer. In the year 1650, 

 Sir Edward Mosley, Bart, by virtue of an ancient charter, claimed 

 a messuage and 120 acres, called Barley-fields farm, in Callingwood. 



Dunstall is an ancient manor in this parish, situated close to the 

 border of Needwood Forest, and midway between Tatenhill and 

 Barton. This manor is not mentioned in Doomsday-book ; but it 

 appears to have been a member of Tutbury from the Conquest, and 

 was given with Newbold, by William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, in 

 the reign of Henry III. to Walter de Somerville, in exchange for 

 Barton. The present proprietor of this estate is Mr. Meek, by 

 whom it has been much improved. 



Newbold. This manor is situated on the west side of the ancient 

 Roman Ikeuild-street, which is here a turnpike-road, leading from 

 Burton to Lichfield. The present proprietor is Mr. Webb, who re- 

 sides in a commodious modern-built farm-house, not far from the 

 navigation warehouse at Barton. 



In this manor, between Burton and Bramston, there are salt- 

 springs ; and in a place called the Clots, about a mile east of 

 Dunstall, if cattle of a black, red, or brown colour, be put to feed, 

 they will certainly change their colour to a whitish dun, which 

 must be ascribed to the saltness of the soil. As for horses, they 

 rapidly improve upon these grounds, but they soon become dappled, 

 be they of whatsoever colour.* 



BARTON-UNDER-NEEDWOOD. This village is situated on the 



* Dr. Plot's Natural History of Staffordshire. 



