Marchington, Staffordshire - St. Peters Church - local postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  St. Peters, Marchington, Staffordshire
• Publisher:  Staffordshire Federation of Womens Institutes
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Marchington is a small village in East Staffordshire, England. It lies between the towns of Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter. Marchington has a small shop, a first school, two churches and two pubs. The population of the village was 1,127 at the 2001 census.^[1]

One of the earliest mentions of this place is in the Domesday book where it is listed amongst the lands given to Henry de Ferrers^[2] by the King. The land consisted of four and a half square leagues of woodland and meadow; 40 acres (160,000 m²) of pasture and work for more than seven ploughs. It was worth one hundred shillings. The lands remained in the ownership of the de Ferrers family as part of the earldom of Derby until the failure of the rebeilion of Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl. After his death in 1279, his widow, Eleanor, failed in a legal case to prove that she had a dower interest in the land. The lands were then held by the king's brother, Edmund, 1st Duke of Lancaster.

A railway station on the Crewe to Derby Line opened in 1848 but closed in 1958.

In 1941 a USA army camp was built in Marchington. The vicarage became the headquarters and an officers’ mess was built in Silver Lane. It became a prisoner-of-war camp in 1944 when the soldiers left for the D-Day invasion of Europe. The British army was still using the camp until the 1960s but the land was finally sold in 1980.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=staffordshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted