KIBBLESTONE, a liberty in the parish of STONE, southern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, containing 1089 inhabitants. This was anciently a large park, and there are still the vestiges of some large fish-ponds, one of which supplies a stream that falls into the Trent at Walton bridge, turning in its course several mills for grinding flints used at the potteries. At Meaford, within this liberty, is an old mansion, long possessed by the Jervis family, in which the gallant admiral, Earl St. Vincent, was born, and which is now occupied by his nephew, Viscount St. Vincent, Baron Meaford. There is a petrifying spring issuing out of the rocks near Catwalton.