Staffordshire

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Staffordshire 1863

John Dower

Staffordshire 1835.
Engraved by Walker after Creighton. Taken from Lewis "Topographical Dictionary"

Stoke on Trent 1868

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire.
Engraved by Sands for a drawing by W. Carter. Taken from Joseph Nightingale, The Beauties of England and Wales 1813.
The Hall, of which this was the Gatehouse was built 1575 and demolished after burning down c.1780. The Gatehouse remains, was just a roofless shell, but was bought and restored by the Landmark Trust 1976. You can now rent it as a splendid holiday cottage ! The Gatehouse is renaissance in its detail.

Staffordshire

Parliamentary & County Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland.
Maps by W. Hughes F.R.G.S.
Published by J.S. Virtue 1886.

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