TRENTHAM, (Staffordshire) on the Trent, with its park, 3 m. from Newcastle under Line, towards Stone, in the Lp. of Earl Gower, to whom it gives title of Visc. It was formerly the manor of that charitable Lady Catherine Leveson, wife of Sir Richard, and daughter of Alice Duchess Dudley, who died 1673. Besides making provision at an hos. she founded at her Lp. in Balsal in Warwickshire, for poor widows of this T. she endowed a ch. sc. here, and gave 50 l. to be distributed to the poor of this place, on the day of her funeral, &c. Sir Rich. Leveson's sister and co-heir marrying Sir Tho. Gower, brought this Lp. into his family, who have made it their seat. Here was formerly a priory. The hilly tract bet. this and Swinerton is reckoned the most healthy part of the Co.