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GENUKI: Butterton (402 words) |
 | "Butterton is a large village, on a steep declivity, nine miles NNW of Mayfield and five miles S of Longnor, comprising within its township and chapelry 388 inhabitants and about 1500 acres of land, forming a high moorland district, but well enclosed and mostly in pasturage. |
| Although Butterton was a chapelry of Mayfield parish it was physically separated from the remainder of the parish by nine miles. |
| Butterton was incorporated with Alstonfield, Grindon and Wetton in 1817 as a 'Gilbert Union' for the maintenance of their poor under Gilbert's Act of 1782, The four incorporated townships had their workhouse at Alstonfield. |
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