IPSTONES, (Staffordshire) near the r. Churnet, 1 m. below Kingsley, anciently bel. to a family of the same name; from
which it went, by marriage, to the Breretons, as it came to Sir John de Ipstones, in the R. of Edw. I. or II. by his
father's marrying the heiress of Sir Hen. Cromwell. The soil here is noted for producing the best ruddle, or red-oker, for
marking sheep.