HAUGHTON, a parish in the district and county of Stafford; on the Shropshire Union railway, 4 miles SW by W of Stafford. It has a station on the railway, and its post town is Stafford. Acres, 1,860. Rea1 property, £3, 493. Pop., 516. Houses, 116. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Francis Eld, Esq. Offa the Dane is said to have lived in the parish, at High Offley. There is a Danish barrow. The living is a rectoiy in the diocese of Lichfield. Valne, £403.* Patron, the Rev.S. Royds. The church is ancient but good, with a tower; and was recently enlarged and embellished.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))