BLURTON, a chapelry in the parish of TRENTHAM,
northern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county
of STAFFORD, 4 miles (S. B. by E.) from Newcastle
under Line, containing, with Lightwood Forest, 844
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Marquis of Stafford.