Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOARCROSS

HOARCROSS, a township in Yoxhall and Hanbury parishes, Stafford; 4¼ miles SE of Abbots-Bromley. Real property, £2, 170. Pop., 251. Hoarcross Hall was anciently the seat of the Willes family; was rebuilt by Lord Scardale, and occupied by him as a hunting seat; and passed to H. Ingram, Esq.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hanbury CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Hoar Cross

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