GAYTON, a parish in the southern division of the
hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 6 miles
(N. E.) from Stafford, containing 284 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed
with £600 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of Mr. Fitzgerald. The church is
dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a trifling
sum for the education of children.