DRAYCOTT-in-the-MOORS, a parish in the southern
division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, county of
STAFFORD, 2 miles (S.W.) from Cheadle, containing
579 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £9 6. 8., and in the
patronage of the Dowager Lady Stourton. The church,
dedicated to St. Peter, contains some fine old monuments
of the Draycot family: in the church-yard is a pyramidal
stone, similar to those with which the Danes
marked the depository of their deceased heroes. There
is a place of worship for Roman Catholics. The parish,
through which runs the river Blythe, 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. Near the village
is the hamlet of Totmonslow, which gives name to the
hundred; it contains but a few houses, though it is supposed
to have been anciently a place of some importance.