CALTON, a chapelry partly in the parish of BLORE,
northern division, and partly in the parishes of CROXDEN;
MAYFIELD, and WATERFALL, southern division, of
the hundred of TOTMONSLOW, county of STAFFORD,
5 miles (W. N. W.) from Ashbourn, containing 238 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of Mrs. Wilmot. The chapel, a small edifice
dedicated to St. Mary, has never been consecrated. The
chapelry is divided into four quarters, each maintaining
its own poor.