TOTMANSLOW HUNDRED. 



THIS Hundred is the northern division of the county, and contains 

 that elevated district called the Moorlands, invaluable for mines of 

 copper, lead, and coal, and remarkable for containing the sources 

 of six rivers. 



Totmanslow hundred contains twenty-nine parishes and parish- 

 churches, besides eleven chapels of ease belonging to the Establish- 

 ment, and several meeting-houses or chapels for the Dissenters. 

 -It is bounded on the north-east by Derbyshire ; on the south-east 

 by the Hundred of Offlow ; on the south and south-west by Pirehill 

 Hundred ; and on the north-west by Cheshire. 



This hundred contains 37,844 inhabitants, principally employed 

 in agriculture, the silk manufacture, and working in the mines. 



This division of Staffordshire contains not only a great diversity 

 of surface but of soil ; including the highest hills, some of them 

 chiefly composed of rock, or overgrown with heath, and others rich 

 in mines, or covered with trees ; and it also contains part of the 

 fertile fields and meadows of Dove Vale, which is the boundary be- 

 tween this county and Derbyshire. 



UTTOXETER 



Is a handsome market-town of Totmanslow South, situated on a 

 gentle eminence, near the western bank of the Dove. It is 14 miles 

 distant from Stafford, and 135 from London. In the year 181 1, 

 Uttoxeter contained 605 inhabited houses, 628 families; 1376 

 males, and 1779 females : total of inhabitants 3155. 



This town is undoubtedly a place of great antiquity, and from its 

 inviting situation on the bank of a river, was probably inhabited 

 before the invasion of the Romans. The most ancient record in 

 existence, however, is dated in the year 1252, when Earl Ferrers 



anted a Charter to the Burgesses of Uttoxeter. 



