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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Horseley like this:
HORSELEY, a township in Eccleshall parish, Stafford; 1 mile SW of Eccleshall. It includes the hamlets of Garmelow and Cotmere, and a place called Offley-Hey; and contains a lake of about 40 acres, well stocked with fish. Acres, 2, 520. Real property, £3, 828. Pop., 532. Houses, 134. Walton Hall and Johnson Hall are chief residences.
Horseley is now part of STAFFORD District. Click here for graphs and data of how STAFFORD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Horseley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Horseley, in Stafford and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25351
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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