COTTON, a chapelry in the parish of ALVETON,
southern division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW,
county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (N. E.) from Cheadle,
containing 439 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400 private
benefaction, and £ 1000 royal bounty, and in the pa-.
tronage of George Whieldon, Esq. The chapel was built
in 1795, at the sole expense of the late Thomas Gilbert,
Esq., who also endowed it, and left the payment
of the repairs a perpetual charge upon his property.
There are extensive quarries of limestone, worked by
the Trent and Mersey Canal Company. Cotton is in the
honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the
jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every
third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.