WESTON-upon-TRENT, a parish in the southern
division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD,
4 miles (N. E.) from Stafford, containing, with
the liberty of Yarlett, 475 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200
royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of-Inge, Esq. The church is an ancient
structure, with a large tower and spire. The Grand
Trunk canal passes through the parish. Extensive saltworks
have been established at the village: the brine
is raised in the parish of Ingestre, by means of machinery
worked by the waters of the Trent, and is conveyed
across that river and under the canal, through
pipes, to certain reservoirs, whence it runs into iron
pans, is heated, and becomes chrystallized for use.
The daily consumption of brine is estimated at one
thousand four hundred hogsheads, from which about
fourteen thousand tons of salt are annually extracted,
including most of the basket, or kiln-dried, salt sold in
London.