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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Basford like this:
BASFORD, a township in Cheddleton parish, Stafford; 3 miles S of Leek. Real property, £3,128. Pop., 428. Houses, 76. Charles Cotton, the comic poet, born in 1630, was a native.
Basford is now part of STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS District. Click here for graphs and data of how STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Basford itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Basford, in Staffordshire Moorlands and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24429
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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