TALK-o'-th'-HILL, a chapelry in the parish of AUDLEY, northern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (N. N, W.) from Newcastle under Line, containing 1008 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, jn the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Audley. The chapel is a small brick building, surmounted by a cupola. The great north road formerly passed through the village, which is situated upon an eminence commanding a view into nine counties, with the mountains of North Wales in the distance. In the centre is a stone cross, where a market was formerly held. A free school was erected by subscription in 1760, in which fourteen children are instructed for £ 15 a year. Adjacent to the village is a spring, the water of which is of a blue milky colour, strongly impregnated with sulphur, and much in request for cutaneous diseases.