CHORLTON, a chapelry in the parish of ECCLESHALL,
northern division of the hundred of PIREHILL,
county of STAFFORD, 6 miles (N. by W.) from Eccleshall,
containing 237 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, within the peculiar jurisdiction, of the
Prebendary of Eccleshall in the Cathedral Church of
Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £ 1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of certain Trustees. The chapel, dedicated to
St. Lawrence, had sixty free sittings recently erected in
it, towards defraying the expense of which the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and
chapels granted £50.