Place:Chapel and Hill Chorlton, Staffordshire, England

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NameChapel and Hill Chorlton
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.939°N 2.283°W
Located inStaffordshire, England
See alsoNorth Pirehill Hundred, Staffordshire, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural, Staffordshire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1974
Newcastle-under-Lyme (district), Staffordshire, Englandmunicipal district in which it has been located since 1974

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Chapel Chorlton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CHORLTON, a chapelry in Eccleshall [ancient] parish, Stafford[shire]: on the North Western railway, 1¾ mile SSE of Whitmore [railway] station, and 6 N by W of Eccleshall. It includes the township of Chorlton-Hill, and part of the hamlet of Stableford; and its post town is Whitmore, under Stoke-on-Trent. Acres: 1,921. Real property: £3,342. Population: 484. Houses: 87. The property is divided among a few. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £105. Patron: the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is tolerable."

The name of the parish is shortened from Chapel Chorlton and Hill Chorlton.

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